Art critic Becky Hunter in conversation on writing with international artist Richard Forster, with help from artist and here not there project manager Adam Clarke.
Thursday 24th February 5.30 – 6.45pm at mima.
Drawing upon their varied experience, having worked together and separately, Becky Hunter, Richard Forster and Adam Clarke will present a talk aimed at professional artists and Fine Art students. They will be discussing the process of using the written word to communicate about art in various contexts, for example, art criticism, art history, artist statements, edited
interviews and the integration of visual art and fiction, which both Hunter and Forster have experimented with. Their intention is to discuss in-depth the difficult but compelling questions of why we write about art, and what art writing might aspire to.
This event is organised by here not there and supported by mima. Please contact becky@beckyhunter.co.uk or adamclarke30@hotmail.com for more information.
Speaker Biographies
Richard Forster is an internationally successful artist hailing originally from Saltburn-by-the-Sea, with an upcoming solo exhibition at mima in 2011. Working with drawing, sculpture and site-specificity, he is a socially-engaged artist. Richard is represented by Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, and has recently exhibited at the Drawing Center, New York; Art Cologne with
MOT International, London; as well as at Spike Island and (solo) as part of the Jerwood Artists Platform. http://richardforster.net
Becky Hunter, from Durham City, is a freelance art writer with a BA in Painting from Chelsea College of Art, London; and an AHRC graduate with distinction of the University of York’s History of Art MA, now living in Northern England. Her main interests include abstract art of the 1950s onwards and drawing. Having contributed to MAP, Art Papers, a-n, Dazed Digital
and USELESS, and working as UK Editor of emerging art publication Whitehot, she is now preparing her PhD proposal on the abstract painter Agnes Martin. http://beckyhunter.co.uk
Adam Clarke is a Middlesbrough-born artist whose work relates directly to the physicality of space and responds to the limits of the walls. His work is applied directly to the finished surface of the gallery walls using the simplest and most direct of tools, the HB pencil. He has exhibited widely, including at the Royal Academy Summer Show, Urban Art Fair, London, and
at here not there, Middlesbrough, a project/space that Adam manages. He is also technical assistant to artist Monika Gryzmala and at mima. http://adamclarke.moonfruit.com