Writers Kingston event #73 - National Gallery Lates 2024 - March 22nd
With Kingston University students Jessica Pritchard and Oscar Rodriguez plus SJ Fowler and Iain Sinclair.
The second event in our second partnership with the National Gallery, this time across 2024, featuresdKingston University students and alumni! A remarkable project which allows Kingston students to write new works for the page and performance on paintings in the National Gallery, supported by curator Joseph Kendra and WK director SJ Fowler. Performed to a full and generous audience during the Friday Lates program, this is a perfect example of how Writers Kingston provides Kingston University students with a chance to engage with opportunities at world respected institutions and large audiences.
“For centuries, the artforms of painting and poetry have been in dialogue, with each informing the other, or attempting to translate what makes them unique as their own media into another. Poet and performer SJ Fowler returns to the gallery to read new ekphrastic poems about chosen paintings in our collection, offering alternative interpretations of their meaning, history and standing. Fowler is joined by Gallery Educators alongside invited guests from Writers’ Kingston, students and staff from Kingston University, as well as further afield, for a tour and poetry performances around the Gallery.”