Brass Art in conversation with Patricia Allmer

Join Professor Patricia Allmer, author and art historian, in conversation with Brass Art, HOME’s current exhibition artists on their solo exhibition rock, quiver and bend and wider practice.

More about Patricia Allmer:

Patricia Allmer is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at the University of Edinburgh. Her many books, exhibitions, and essays have transformed the study of modern and contemporary women artists and surrealism, starting in 2009 with her curation of the award-winning Angels of Anarchy: Women Artists and Surrealism at Manchester Art Gallery, the first major exhibition on this topic. Her contribution to art history and her long-term international scholarly impact on the study of women artists and surrealism have been recognised by awards including a Philip Leverhulme Prize (2010) and, most recently, an Association for Art History Fellowship (2023). Her books include Lee Miller: Photography, Surrealism, and Beyond (2016) and The Traumatic Surreal (2022), hailed in its Woman’s Art Journal review as “groundbreaking”, offering “new perspectives on female positions and lineages in the history of surrealism”. Her forthcoming co-curated 2024 Henry Moore exhibition The Traumatic Surreal is inspired by and based on this book. Professor Allmer is also a major international scholar of René Magritte, publishing three books on the artist, and delivering the prestigious 2017-18 International Émile Bernheim Programme lectures in Brussels on his work.

More about Brass Art:

Brass Art is the collaborative practice of Chara Lewis, Kristin Mojsiewicz and Anneke Pettican, based in Manchester, Glasgow, and Huddersfield. This exhibition marks 25 years of their continual collaboration.

Their work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions including Dark Matters Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester; The Festival of the Unconscious The Freud Museum, London; A Trick of the Light Grundy Gallery, Blackpool; xCoAx National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC), Lisbon; Cultural R>evolution International Symposium of Electronic Art, Hong Kong, Phantasmagoria The Lowry, Salford; Skyscraping Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield. They have been commissioned by Arts&Heritage; Meadow Arts; Turnpike Gallery (CIC), Echappées d’art, Angers; Tatton Park Biennial; Brewster Project, New York. Their work has been presented at the Hepworth Research Network, Tate St Ives; Siggraph Vancouver; Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona; xCoAx Coimbra; International Conference on Artistic Research, Vienna; The Freud Museum, London. Their work is held in Arts Council England Collection, Government Art Collection, University of Salford Commission to Collect programme, as well as private collections in Britain, America, Europe, and South Africa.

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