Matthew Arthur Williams in conversation with Ingrid Pollard & Lisa Fannen

Join us at Stills on Friday 17 October for an evening of Matthew Arthur Williams in conversation with Ingrid Pollard and Lisa Fannen. Collectively, their practices span photography, installation, writing and performance. In this discussion they will come together, connecting the themes and forms of their work.

About the speakers
Matthew Arthur Williams
portrait of artist taken by Gee Vaucher

Williams is a Glasgow-based artist who has become known for a visual arts practice that explores themes of race, queerness, memory and history. A key concern that he addresses in his work is the absence of representation and how this can be perpetuated by formal histories and archives.

Ingrid Pollard

Ingrid Pollard,There is Light in the Fissures, 2023. Photo credit: Colin Davidson.

Ingrid Pollard is a British artist and photographer whose work explores race, identity, and belonging in relation to landscape and history. A founder of Autograph (Association of Black Photographers), she is known for Pastoral Interludes (1987), depicting the English countryside through a black lens. In 2022, she was shortlisted for the Turner Prize.

Lisa Fannen

Lisa Fannen, Return. Photo credit: Monika Smekot.

Lisa shares words performing solo and with other musicians/soundmakers. Her poetry collection Faultline was released as a collaborative recording project and she is interested in (re)integrating text, sound and movement including as larger scale ritual performance. Lisa is also a bodyworker and activist concerned with dialogue and information exchange about health in the context of social justice and has published related writing including the book Warp & Weft: psycho-emotional health, politics and experiences.

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