Collected Readings
Curated by Peter Richards, featuring artists: Fiona Banner, Ian Breakwell, Victor Burgin, Jimmie Durham, Tracey Emin, Hamish Fulton, Richard Hamilton, Matthew Higgs, Hilary Lloyd, Richard Long, Donald Urquhart.
Collected Readings is an exhibition of works selected from the British Council Collection that sets out to explore aspects of word in display. The exhibition consists of works featuring text as an integral element of the image by eleven celebrated artists: Fiona Banner, Ian Breakwell, Victor Burgin, Jimmie Durham, Tracey Emin, Hamish Fulton, Richard Hamilton, Matthew Higgs, Hilary Lloyd, Richard Long, Donald Urquhart; spanning five decades.
The exhibition, realised in collaboration with the British Council Northern Ireland, will be supported by a contextual program that includes a lecture by Victor Burgin on Wednesday 24th March at 12.00 noon and Dr. Christa-Mia Lerm Hayes’s lecture Collective Reading – Relationships Between Contemporary Artists’ Works and Literature on Tuesday 27th April at 12.30pm.
Supported by Arts Council of Northern Ireland and Belfast City Council