lunch time talk Friday 26th at GT Gallery

Lunch Time Talk with Margaret Harrison

Golden Thread Gallery,

Friday 26th November 2010,

1pm



Golden Thread Gallery is delighted to host a lunchtime talk by Margaret Harrison, renowned artist and pioneer of feminist art. As a prelude to In View, a major group exhibition exploring the theme of the gaze, Harrison will discuss her artistic practice, focusing on the body of work to be exhibited at Golden Thread Gallery throughout December and January 2011.



Themes of Harrison’s very early work exploring notions of the human body as an object of sexuality, consumption, and gaze. In 1971, Harrison's work was instantly met with controversy and antagonism (the London police shut down her first solo exhibition the day after it opened, feeling that its contents were too controversial). This controversy caused Harrison to abandon the issues and themes of this series. Now an established artist with work in the permanent collections of major international institutions, she is critically re-engaging with this body of work, continuing the dialogue that she began four decades ago.



PLEASE NOTE

Admission is free, however a limited number of seats are available.

Please e-mail to reserve a seat to info@gtgallery.co.uk

A light lunch will be provided.



Margaret Harrison studied at the Carlisle College of Art, England (1957-61), Royal Academy Schools, London (1961-64), and the Academy of Art in Perugia, Italy (1965). Until recently, she was a Professor at Manchester Metropolitan University and The Summer Arts Institute of California, held at U.C. Davis. In 1970, she was one of the founders of the first London Women’s Liberation Art Group. Harrison developed artist during the years of pop, minimal and conceptual work. She has produced bodies of work dealing with homeworkers, rape, domestic abuse, the impact of war upon women, fame and celebrity status, and beauty as depicted by the cosmetics industry. She has been an Artist in Residence at the New Museum for Contemporary Art in New York and a Fellow at the Studio for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University.