Talk

Gendered materials

Panel discussion

Friday 10 March 2017 6.30 - 7.45pm

The Reynolds Room, Burlington House, Royal Academy of Arts, Piccadilly. Entrance via de Grey Court.

£12, £6 concessions, free for carers. Includes talk and drinks reception.

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Join us for a panel discussion exploring the relationship between art, gender and materials and how an artist’s process, biography and scale of work can shape our reading of gendered art practice.

What is the relationship between gender and materials in art practice? How do we define artwork as feminine or masculine? What is the role of the artist’s biography and how do materials and scale used in art practice help to define gender?

For this panel discussion, artists Ann Christopher RA, Coco Crampton and Mark Dunhill (Dunhill and O’Brien) join Helena Reckitt, Senior Lecturer in Curating at Goldsmiths University, to discuss how artists use materials and gender within their practice and how notions of scale, language and aesthetics interplay with the interpretation of whether art is feminine or masculine.

£12, £6 concessions, free for carers. Includes talk and drinks reception.

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The artists

Ann Christopher , The Silence of Shadows

Ann Christopher RA

Ann Christopher attended Harrow School of Art from 1965 to 1966 and went on to study sculpture at the West of England College of Art from 1966 to 1969. Christopher’s first solo exhibition was held in 1969, with subsequent solo exhibitions throughout the 1970s. In 1989 she was given a retrospective of work produced between 1969 and 1989 at the Dorset County Museum and Art Gallery. Christopher has completed numerous public and private commissions both in the UK and USA (see image above) and has exhibited in numerous group exhibitions both nationally and internationally. Recent solo exhibitions include: All the Cages Have Open Doors, Pangolin London (2016); The Lines of Time, Tennant Gallery, Royal Academy (2016); Marks on the Edge of Space, Rabley Drawing Centre, Marlborough (2014); To Know Without Remembering, Pangolin London (2013); The Power of Place, Sir Hugh Casson Room, Royal Academy (2007); Still Lines, Jubilee Park, Canary Wharf, London (2004). She was awarded Silver Medal for Sculpture of Outstanding Merit by the Royal Society of British Sculptors (1994) and the Otto Beit Medal of Sculpture of Outstanding Merit (1997).

Christopher was elected a member of the Royal Academy in 1980, becoming a Royal Academician in 1989 and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors in 1992. She is represented by Pangolin London and lives and works near Bath.

Coco Crampton

Coco Crampton was born in 1983 in London. She graduated from the Royal Academy Schools in 2014. Recent exhibitions include Bowers: from form to public, Belmacz Gallery, London (2016), RA Summer Exhibition 2016, Royal Academy of Arts, London; All Over, Studio Leigh, London (2016), Gradation, Art First, London (2016); Gardeners & Astronomers, Caustic Coastal, Manchester (2016); Kingly Things, Chandelier Projects, London (2015); Handles on Romance & Other Girls also Common Tongue, The Minories, Colchester (2015). Coco lives and works in London.

International Women’s Day 2017 at the Royal Academy

To mark International Women’s Day 2017, the Royal Academy of Arts is presenting a week of talks, workshops and tours to explore ideas of gender, material and identity in art. Focusing on women artists across different RA exhibitions and the RA Collection, join us to discover some of the under-acknowledged accomplishments of women artists throughout history.