ART HISTORY
TALKS & EVENTS
Northlight Arts Centre and Leeds Art History Group bring you the North's best voices in historical art. Our Art History Talks are your opportunity to join professors, art historians, artists and academics for two hours of engaging talks and lectures with discussions and Q&A.
TICKETS COST £10 for each evening
Doors open 6.30pm to buy refreshments. Talk starts at 7pm.
Licensed Bar serving beers and wines.
Coffee and soft refreshments also available.
Free visitors car park
Well serviced bus routes to and from Harrogate and Leeds
Wheelchair access
SEPT 17TH
Sophie Taeuber-Arp:
Crafting Abstraction
A Talk with Dr Simon Marginson
Doors: 6.30pm
Talk: 7pm - 9pm
Sophie Taeuber-Arp was an abstract artist whose work blurred the boundaries between disciplines. She created paintings and reliefs, designed clothes and cushions, and worked with puppetry and dance. This talk offers an introduction to Taeuber-Arp’s diverse body of work and explores the intersection of abstract and applied arts within interwar modernism.
OCT 8TH
Joash Woodrow
The Reclusive Leeds Modernist
A Talk with Christopher P. Wood
Doors: 6.30pm
Talk: 7pm - 9pm
Joash Woodrow's work was rediscovered by chance in 2001 on the verge of being destroyed for ever. The story of the artists subsequent re-evaluation and success has become the stuff of folk lore. Artist Christopher P. Wood author of the first publication or the artist - recounts the story of his discovery of Woodrow and his rise to fame.
OCT 22ND
Hannah Höch:
Cut with the Kitchen Knife
A Talk with Dr Simon Marginson
Doors: 6.30pm
Talk: 7pm - 9pm
Hannah Höch was a German Dadaist who pioneered the use of photomontage, recombining images from the popular press. Her collages critiqued society, gender norms, and the politics of the Weimar Republic. Politically charged and provocative, her work led to a ban on exhibiting under the Nazi regime. This talk offers an introduction to her work and the issues it raises.
NOV 5TH
The Art of the Etruscans
A Talk with Prof Joyce Hill
Doors: 6.30pm
Talk: 7pm - 9pm
The Etruscans were one of the first tribes of Italy to be conquered and absorbed by an expanding Rome. Few of their written records survive, but we can still admire their exceptional arts and crafts, mostly in clay, bronze and tomb frescoes. The talk will include a visit to a tomb, not yet open to-the public, where beautiful frescoes have recently been discovered.
NOV 19TH
Echoes In Stone
British Art and the Long Durations of the Anthropocene
A Talk with Christin Neubauer
Doors: 6.30pm
Talk: 7pm - 9pm
The urgency of the climate crisis, driven by anthropocentric exploitation, prompts a re-evaluation of if’s historical roots. This paper explores how 19th-century British Art, particularly in the Victorian period, engaged with emerging ecological consciousness and notions of deep time, anticipating visual responses to what we now term the Anthropocene.
DEC 3RD
Georgian Avant-garde
A Talk with Matthew Merrick
Doors: 6.30pm
Talk: 7pm - 9pm
A talk on avant-garde art and artists from Georgia, including Niko Pirosmani, Lado Gudiashvili, Elene Akhvlediani, and others.
