Artist's Talk

Jo Longhurst

• Wed 7 Mar , 7pm, Reception from 6pm
• ICIA Art Space 2, 3WN foyer

*** EVENT from Spring 2012 ***

Hosted by Dr Lynn Turner (Lecturer in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London), this is your opportunity to hear from Jo Longhurst about her new exhibition Suspension and how it fits within our Internationalism theme. Jo will also be talking about her previous work including The Refusal. The talk starts at 7pm, but join us from 6pm for a drink and a chance to view the new exhibition.

About the artist: Jo Longhurst

Jo Longhurst is an artist best known for The Refusal, a study of human/animal relations and the British Whippet. Her practice features a mixture of analogue and digital lens-based processes, performance and installation.

Since 2009, Jo has been working with elite gymnasts in training and competition at Heathrow Gymnastics Club and the World Gymnastics Championships. As a former gymnast herself, she questions the ideas of human perfectibility through the ‘hot housing’ of young gymnasts, exploring how the most successful often become representatives of ideologies and nations.

Jo has exhibited internationally and is currently developing a new body of work, Other Spaces, which opens at Mostyn, Llandudno in June 2012, and will tour in 2012/13. She will also be one of the artists to exhibit in the inaugural exhibition at the National Media Museum’s new Media Space in London in March 2013.

A-Z the establishing work of Suspension and Other Spaces was exhibited at the National Media Museum, Bradford, 2008/9. The Refusal has been exhibited internationally, including a solo show of 13 works at the Museum Folkwang, Essen, 2008 (curated by Ute Eskildsen) and in many group shows - most recently Update UK:Photography in Britain after 2000, Krakow, 2010; Cocker Spaniel and Other Tools for International Understanding, Kusthalle zu Kiel and Ursula Blickle Foundation 2009-2010; and Becoming Animal, Becoming Human, New Society for Visual Arts [NGBK], Berlin 2009.

Find out more about Jo Longhurst at www.jolonghurst.com

Find out more about Dr Lynn Turner at www.gold.ac.uk/visual-cultures/l-turner/

Running time: approx. 1 hour

• Free Admission