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Friday Lates: The Triumph of Art

Laura Grace Ford: Remembering the National Gallery

Artist Laura Grace Ford takes us on an imagined journey through the Gallery
Date
Friday, 24 May 2024
This event has ended.

About

Part storytelling, part in-conversation, part tour, artist Laura Grace Ford takes us on an imagined journey of the spaces, corridors and doorways that exist behind our paintings. Sharing a new piece of fiction that weaves lived experience and dream-like memories, Ford will read her remembered tour of the National Gallery and discuss her work and her influences with Dorset Curatorial Fellow Annabel Bai Jackson.

This Friday Late is organised in conjunction with ‘The Triumph of Art’, our nationwide commission with artist Jeremy Deller, supported by The Art Fund.

Image: Laura Grace Ford, 'ALPHA, ISIS, EDEN', 2017. The Showroom, image courtesy of the artist

Laura Grace Ford

Laura Grace Ford is a London-based artist and writer concerned with spatial narratives, contested space, architecture, fiction and memory. Drawing on cognitive mapping and the dérive, Ford interrogates place by mapping the psychic contours of the city. Ford completed a PhD (Threshold Cartographies: The Poetics of Contested Spade) at the RCA 2021. In 2013-2014 she was Stanley Picker Fellow at Kingston University. She is author of Savage Messiah (Verso, 2011) and most recently was a Somerset House Studios resident. Recent shows and projects include: 'The Horror Show', Somerset House, 2022; 'Digital Citizen', Baltic 2019; and 'Open Your Palm, Feel the Dust Settling There', Somerset House, London 2018.

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Friday Lates: The Triumph of Art

Laura Grace Ford: Remembering the National Gallery

Artist Laura Grace Ford takes us on an imagined journey through the Gallery
Date
Friday, 24 May 2024
This event has ended.

Free

Although this event does not require booking, we encourage you to book a free Gallery entry ticket to gain admission to the National Gallery and save time on arrival. 

Please note, Gallery entry does not guarantee admission to this event. Places are available on a first come, first served basis.