Regular Event: 2pm - 2.45pm, 21st Sep 2024 • Braemar Village Hall

In Conversation

Presented by Ursula Magazine.

For almost 60 years, British artist Phyllida Barlow took inspiration from her surroundings to create large-scale yet anti-monumental sculptures from inexpensive, low-grade materials such as cardboard, fabric, plywood and cement. To mark the occasion of the major exhibition Phyllida Barlow. unscripted at Hauser & Wirth Somerset and the release of the forthcoming title Phyllida Barlow: Sculpture, 1963–2023, two internationally renowned curators — Frances Morris, curator of ‘unscripted’, author of Sculpture, 1963–2023 and former Director of Tate Modern, and Fiona Bradley, Director of The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh — join forces to explore Barlow’s ground-breaking and influential work.

A selection of Hauser & Wirth publications on Phyllida Barlow’s work will be available for sale in the Fife Arms shop.

The exhibition Phyllida Barlow. unscripted runs until 5 January 2025 at Hauser & Wirth Somerset.

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Speaker Biographies

Frances Morris, Director Tate Modern from 2016-2023, is curator of Phyllida Barlow. unscripted at Hauser & Wirth, Somerset and author of the forthcoming monograph on the artist. Frances has made many exhibitions and publications, including acclaimed retrospectives of Louise Bourgeois, Yayoi Kusama, and Agnes Martin, as well as Hilma Af Klint & Piet Mondrian: Forms of Life. 

Fiona Bradley has been Director of Fruitmarket in Edinburgh since 2003, running it as an organisation that centres artists and empowers audiences. She has made exhibitions with artists including Karla Black, Lee Lozano, Tacita Dean, Eva Hesse and Martin Creed. In 2015, she worked with Phyllida Barlow on a major exhibition, set, and commissioned Frances Morris to write the accompanying book, that has now been extended as the definitive publication on the work of Phyllida Barlow.

Frances Morris photo credit Samia Meah.

Frances Morris and Fiona Bradley: The Life and Work of Phyllida Barlow

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