Linsey Young, Curator of Contemporary British Art, Tate Britain in conversation with artist Clifton Wright

Studio Voltaire’s current exhibition presents several hundred works by Irish artist John Sheehy, the first ever comprehensive survey of his practice. As only a small fraction of Sheehy’s expansive body of work can be exhibited at any one time, Studio Voltaire has invited leading artists, writers, and curators – including Linsey Young and Clifton Wright – to make further selections during the exhibition.

Re-hangs are occurring weekly, allowing new works to be introduced and different narrative strands to be foregrounded. For this in conversation, Young and Wright will discuss their curatorial approaches and interests in relation to Sheehy’s work and expand on the wider contexts of the exhibition, encompassing shifting cultural understandings of artistic practice and production in relation to their own work. The conversation takes place during Wright’s re-hang of the exhibition.

The event is free but booking is recommended.

About the contributors:
Linsey Young is Curator, Contemporary British Art at Tate Britain. Young co-curated Pablo Bronstein’s Duveen commission Historical Dances in an Antique Setting and was lead curator on the Turner Prize exhibition (both 2016). With Ann Gallagher, Director of Collections (British Art) Tate Britain, she is co-curating a major Rachael Whiteread retrospective opening in 2017. She has previously curated exhibitions at the Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius (2016); and the National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh (2014).

Artist Clifton Wright has developed a diverse practice that revolves around his interest in people and architecture. His body of work reveals a continuous intense relationship to drawing, where he works across widely different scales and media. His images of people are drawn from a variety of sources including faces in the media, 20th Century portrait painting and personal family photographs. Wright’s work has been included in exhibitions at the Victoria and Albert Museum (2016, 2015); Tate Exchange (2016); Studio Voltaire, London (2012); MAD Musee Belgium (2011); Tate Modern (2010); Whitechapel Gallery (2009); and Trongate 103, Glasgow (2009). Wright has been a member of Intoart since 2005.

Intoart is a visual arts organisation whose public programme of exhibitions, events and publishing aims to impact on policy and practice across the fields of contemporary art, learning disability and education. Based in Studio Voltaire’s studios, Intoart’s vision is for people with learning disabilities to be visible, equal and established artists.