Richard Deacon, Red Republic , 2010, Glazed ceramic, © the artist; Courtesy, Lisson Gallery, London
Lisson Gallery presents a programme of occasional free lunchtime talks that offer a unique opportunity to hear Lisson Gallery artists, cultural figures and gallery staff discuss art and related topics.
The sixteenth in the series will be a conversation between artist, Richard Deacon, curator, writer and editor, Teresa Gleadowe and Lisson Gallery’s Curatorial Director, Greg Hilty, about works in Deacon’s current solo show at Lisson Gallery, Association.
Each talk gives the opportunity to discover first-hand the thoughts, processes and insights behind the artists’ work. Each lecture is free but booking is essential as there are a limited number of places available.
Throughout his practice, Deacon has employed diverse materials including wood, aluminium, plastic, steel, ceramic, glass, rubber, resin, polycarbonate, leather and cloth: exploiting their potential to create complex and challenging forms. It is a radical vocabulary that encompasses the organic, amorphous, geometric, rectilinear, intimate and monumental. Along with his continued interest in material exploration, Association illustrates Deacon’s fascination with the relationship of the individual component to the structural whole and new works in ceramic, aluminium and steel evidence this investigation.
About the Artist
Born in Wales in 1949, Richard Deacon’s first one-man show was held in 1978 at The Gallery, Brixton, London. This led to a string of solo exhibitions, both nationally and internationally, notably at the Riverside Studios in 1984, Tate Gallery, London, in 1985, the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, in 1988, and at Tate Gallery Liverpool in 1999. He was one of three artists representing Wales at the 52nd Bienniale of Art in Venice. Deacon has participated in many key group exhibitions throughout the world. A major retrospective of his work The Missing Part was shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Strasbourg in 2010, travelling to the Sprengl Museum In Hanover in 2011. Tate Britain will mount a major retrospective in 2014. Richard Deacon won the Turner Prize, Tate Gallery, in 1987 and the Robert Jakobsen Prize, Museum Wurth, Kunzelsau, Germany in 1995. In 1997 he was awarded Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, France, and in 1998 was elected a Royal Academician. Deacon was made CBE in 1999. In 2005 the University of Leicester awarded him an honorary doctorate. He was elected a member of the Akademie der Kunst in Berlin in 2010. He lives and works in London.
About Teresa Gleadowe
Teresa Gleadowe is a curator, writer and editor. She worked within the Visual Arts Department of the British Council from 1977 to 1989 when she was appointed Head of Information at the Tate Gallery. In 1992 she joined the academic staff of the Royal College of Art to develop and direct the first UK-based full-time MA in Curating Contemporary Art, jointly initiated by the Royal College of Art and the Arts Council.
Since 2006 she has worked freelance undertaking roles including, Research Consultant and Series Editor for the Exhibition Histories book series published by Afterall; Lecturer on curatorial programmes at California College of the Arts, San Francisco; de Appel, Amsterdam; the London Consortium MA Film Curating; the MA Curating at Chelsea College of Art and Design and on the Curatorial Intensive run by Independent Curators International in New York in July 2011. She has also advised on curating programmes at the Courtauld Institute, University of East London and Norwich University College of the Arts.
Teresa Gleadowe is also a Chair of Nottingham Contemporary; a member of the Advisory Board of Peer; a Trustee of Paris Calling and a member of the ICA’s Artists Advisory Committee. She has undertaken consultancies for the Whitechapel Art Gallery, Ikon Gallery, Arts Council South West, Arts Council London and The British Council.
Free admission. Booking is essential.
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