Sarah Lowndes on Derek Jarman and Prospect Cottage

Sarah Lowndes - Vaster than Empires and More Slow: Derek Jarman and Prospect Cottage, Dungeness, Kent (1987-1994). This is a scheduled stream that will go live at 7:30pm on Thursday 11th June. Please see below for further details.

This talk is based on a chapter from Sarah Lowndes' book 'Contemporary Artists Working Outside the City: Creative Retreat' which was published by Routledge in 2018. Lowndes will be reading an extract focussing on Derek Jarman, accompanied by photographs taken by Lowndes and by Howard Sooley at Prospect Cottage. Following the reading Lowndes will be responding to questions from the YouTube live chat.

Dr Sarah Lowndes is a writer, curator and lecturer. Research Fellow at NUA, Lowndes also contributes to the Public Programme of the Sainsbury Centre and works with the education team at Time and Tide Museum. Her publications include Contemporary Artists Working Outside the City: Creative Retreat (2018), The DIY Movement in Art, Music and Publishing (2016), All Art is Political: Writings on Performative Art (2014) and Social Sculpture: The Rise of the Glasgow Art Scene (2010). Her editorial projects include co-editing with Andrew Nairne Actions: The image of the world can be different (2018) and co-editing with Nell Croose Myhill, Site Writing (2020).

Under the auspices of Kunsthalle Cromer, she curated and produced Panoramic Sea Happening (2017), Esplanade: A Procession for Women (2018) and the writing and publication projects, Like the Sea I Think (2019) and Field Work (2020).

http://www.sarahlowndes.net/

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