Saturday 11 November
3pm
Free event. All welcome
To accompany Audrey Grant’s exhibition of new work Concept of History, she is joined by Imogen Gibbon to discuss Walter Benjamin, grief, philosophy, autumn and other subjects that connect with these paintings and installation.
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Audrey Grant grew up in Grangemouth and lives and works
in Edinburgh. She is an award-winning painter whose practice includes drawing, photography and installation. All of Grant’s work is underpinned by intellectual ideas derived from, and inspired by, poetry, literature and philosophy. She is currently Artist in Residence at the University of Stirling for 2023-24.
For two decades, Imogen Gibbon has been a curator at the National Galleries of Scotland—her current role is as Interim Co-Director of Collection & Research. She has curated numerous exhibitions at NGS including The Long Look—The Making of a Portrait, 2019, a collaboration between Audrey Grant and photographer/printmaker Norman McBeath.