In-conversation: Clare O’Dowd, Jeffrey Knopf, Theo Simpson and Duncan Wooldridge

Name: In-conversation: Clare O’Dowd, Jeffrey Knopf, Theo Simpson and Duncan Wooldridge
Start: 2024-09-14T14:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-09-14T15:30:00+01:00
Location: Castlefield Gallery

Schedule

Sat Sep 14 2024 at 02:00 pm to 03:30 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Castlefield Gallery | Manchester, EN

Join us for a deep dive into our current exhibition 40 Years of the Future: Where Should We Be Now? (7 Jul – 6 Oct 2024), presented in partnership with the University of Salford Art Collection.
This in-conversation will bring together exhibiting artists Jeffrey Knopf and Theo Simpson, with Clare O’Dowd (Research Curator at the Henry Moore Institute) and Duncan Wooldridge (Writer and Curator, and Reader in Photography at SODA, MMU). O’Dowd and Wooldridge have been commissioned to write about Knopf and Simpson’s work, including newly developed pieces that will enter the University of Salford Art Collection.
O’Dowd’s text explores the interaction between personal, political and historical memory in Knopf’s sculptures whilst Wooldridge considers Simpson’s work as constructing explorations of pictorial, social and industrial assembly. In the context of the exhibition the discussion will offer an insight into how the work of these artists might enable us to confront the past, reimagine the present and bring about the future.
There will be a chance for Q&A.