Saturday 28th September 1.30pm
Artist, Curator and Academic Dr Narbi Price will talk candidly about his career to date, focussing on how interests and subject matter can coalesce into a cohesive practice.
His work takes seemingly everyday scenes which hold additional historical, cultural or personal significance, applying diverse techniques to a photographically derived painting style. It takes sites of chosen events and considers notions of collective memory, pilgrimage and history through the act of painting. He is interested in painting as a receptacle for memory, and in how collective and personal memory can be evoked visually.
Winner of the Contemporary British Painting Prize in 2017, Journal Culture Awards Visual Artist of the Year in 2018, and Prizewinner in John Moores Painting Prize in 2012, Narbi’s PhD was entitled ‘Repainting the Pitmen: The Ashington Art Group & Robert Lyon – Rethinking Legacy through Archive and Practice’. It explored the legacy of The Ashington Group of artists (also known as the Pitmen Painters) through the production of 30 new paintings and curation of two exhibitions and publications. It looked at the post-industrial landscape of Northumberland through the lens of previous artistic activity. He is the current Chair of Contemporary British Painting.
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All lectures are free for members and £5 for non-members. Charges apply to workshops, see individual events for details. All lectures, workshops and events are held in the Learning Room at the gallery unless stated otherwise.
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