Conversation Pieces

This series, which began in December 2008, aims to generate fresh perspectives on the art in Tate Britain’s displays. In dialogue with key art works, themes such as modernity, class, post-colonialism and aesthetics are tackled by artists from cross-cultural and trans-disciplinary viewpoints. Here’s the Cross Cultural Curator, Paul Goodwin, to say a bit more about it…





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The next Conversation Piece will be:

Laura Oldfield Ford
Wednesday 9 December 2009

Artist Laura Oldfield Ford considers the apocalyptic work of John Martin and his group of three 'Judgement Pictures'.


Laura Oldfield Ford
Site next to Queens Head Pub on Newton Road
© The artist


John Martin
The Last Judgement
© Tate


And here's some information about previous Conversation Pieces:

Ingrid Pollard on Landscape
Wednesday 10 December 2008, 14.00–15.00
Artist and photographer Ingrid Pollard reflects upon her artistic practice in conversation with key landscape works from Tate Britain’s collection displays.


Ingrid Pollard
Bursting Stone 1994
© The artist


Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland
Thomas Nuthall with Dog and Gun
© Tate


Susan Stockwell
Transforming the Everyday
Thursday 5 February 2009, 14.00-15.30
Sculptor Susan Stockwell responds to themes of trade, mapping, recycling and re-appropriation both in her own work and key works in the collection.


Susan Stockwell's 'Taipei Stack' in the foreground, and 'Freefall' in the background, at the Hong's Foundation, Taipei, Taiwan, September 2008
© The artist


Vong Phannit
What Falls to the Ground but Can't Be Eaten
© Tate


Raimi Gbadamosi
Race, Power and Language
Thursday 12 March 2009, 14.00-15.30
Artist and theorist Raimi Gbadamosi asks crucial questions of race, language and power, referring to both the Tate Collection and his own practice: ‘What do I do?’, ‘What did they do?’ and ‘What do we all do now?’


Raimi Gbadamosi
Flag of the Republic
© The artist


Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The Beloved
© Tate


Maria Kheirkhah: The Anatomy of Ignorance. Part III 1001 Questions
Thursday 23 April 2009, 14.00-15.30
Installation and performance artist Maria Kheirkhah discusses issues around the relationship between artists, artworks and audiences within specific institutional and cultural contexts.


Maria Kheirkhah
The Anatomy of Ignorance
© Maria Kheirkhah 2009


Tate Britain
© Tate Photography


Nada Prlja
Return of the Red Bourgeoisie
Friday 15 May 2009. 14.00-15.30
Yugoslavian artist Nada Prlja’s art historical education was illustrated by crude black and white reproductions or photocopies of many works from the Tate Collection, here she revisits these works through her memories of growing up as part of the ‘red bourgeoisie’.


Nada Prlja
Illegal Alien, or how the perfect human jumps, from 'Aliens Within.Ltd
© The artist


Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Ecce Ancilla Domini! (The Annunciation)
© Tate


Leo Asemota
Beyond Portraiture
Wednesday 3 June 2009, 14.00-15.30
Artist Leo Asemota explains how his practice, and The Ens Project, expands traditions of portraiture through the complex layering of history, culture, memory and identity.


Leo Asemota
A Singular Plural 2005
© Leo Asemota & EotLA



Marcus Gheeraerts II
Captain Thomas Lee
© Tate