Join us on Sunday 6th December for discussion, talks, and a film screening in response to Carol Rhodes: The land is the body is the painting

Please join curator Siobhan McLaughlin for a symposium in response to the current exhibition, Carol Rhodes: The land is the body is the painting, at Hweg, Penzance.

Rhodes’ paintings contain multiple things at once. They hold the ambiguity of the aerial viewpoint at the same time as data level detail. Forests, and excavated wastelands become muscle and reproductive organs. Motorways and sliproads become veins and arteries. Ultimately, Rhodes’ invented painterly landscapes contain the gut feeling of the body.

Join us on Sunday 6th December for a screening of the video essay, Carol Rhodes: The Deluge, by Painting Nerds, followed by a roundtable discussion where we chat all things painting, landscape and the body.

Schedule

Sunday 6th December

4pm Welcome and cup of tea

4.15pm Introduction from Artist-Curator Siobhan McLaughlin

4.30pm Carol Rhodes: The Deluge, film by Painting Nerds

5.10pm Invited speaker, Martin Holman

5.30pm Roundtable discussion

6pm Head to the pub/for pizza

Carol Rhodes: The land is the body is the painting Symposium is supported by the British Art Network (BAN) (https://britishartnetwork.org.uk/).

About the speakers

Martin Holman is a writer and art historian based in Penzance. His writing about modern and contemporary art has appeared in publications such as Art Review, Burlington Magazine, The Guardian and Sculpture Magazine. He has curated and organised exhibitions across the UK and Europe, including at Tremenheere Sculpture Park, Penzance, Camden Art Centre, London, and Galleria Studio G7, Bologna.

https://www.martinholman.co.uk/ (https://www.martinholman.co.uk/)

Painting Nerds is a video essay YouTube channel for the critical discussion of painting in a contemporary context, visually exploring painting criticism in relation to the wider realm of experience for a broader audience. Painting Nerds was founded in 2022 by Glasgow-based Samuel O'Donnell, artist and founder of A_Place Gallery, and Amsterdam-based artist and writer Jamie Limond. Both were students of Carol Rhodes at Glasgow School of Art. Their films include Amy Silman: Fan Love?, Blow up: Richard Walker at Corpus Cambridge, and Frans Hals: Portraits, Portraits, Portraits.

https://www.youtube.com/@paintingnerds (https://www.youtube.com/@paintingnerds)

Siobhan McLaughlin is an artist and freelance curator based between Glasgow and Penzance. Her practice explores themes of place, care and hidden disability through earth pigments and remnant textiles, to consider how past and current activities leave impressions on our ecologies. As a curator, she has organised exhibitions including Demarco & Beuys / 7 Oaks at Papple Steading in East Lothian, a centenary retrospective, Alan Davie: Beginning of a Far-off World, at Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh and Scottish Landscapes: A New Generation was a reevaluation of the landscape genre by interdisciplinary Scottish contemporary artists.

https://www.siobhanmclaughlin.co.uk/ (https://www.siobhanmclaughlin.co.uk/)

Hweg is an art space run by Joe Lyward, located in a home on the pedestrianised high street of Penzance. Hweg is a project within the ecosystem ofRadical Ecology (https://www.instagram.com/radicalecology/).

https://www.instagram.com/_hweg_/ (https://www.instagram.com/_hweg_/)

Carol Rhodes: The land is the body is the painting Symposium is supported by the British Art Network (BAN). BAN is a Subject Specialist Network supported by Tate and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. The British Art Network (BAN) is a community of curators, academics, artist-researchers, conservators, producers and programmers at all stages of their professional lives. The Network provides funding and practical support to help Members explore, connect and share research focused on curatorial issues and themes connected to British art.

www.britishartnetwork.org.uk (http://www.britishartnetwork.org.uk)

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