Wednesday 8 November 2017

Wednesday Talk: Maeve Brennan

12.30pm—2pm

The Wednesday Talks series presents leading artists, thinkers and curators who explore the driving forces, influences and sources of inspiration within contemporary art. The series is a collaboration between the Whitworth and Manchester School of Art and is programmed by Pavel Büchler.

Free.

Since graduating from the Goldsmiths in 2012, Maeve Brennan has lived and worked in London and Beirut and has explored in her moving image works the material culture, geology and archaeology of the Middle East as a reflection on the region's history and politics. Her latest film, a portrait of a three men living and working in post-conflict Lebanon, The Drift (2017), currently on show at the Whitworth, is a sensitive study on destruction and preservation, salvage and reconstruction, community and heritage. Brennan was a fellow of the arts study programme Home Workspace at Ashkal Alwan, Beirut (2013-2014). She was selected as one of Art Review Future Greats 2015 and is a recipient of this year's Jerwood/FVU Awards.

Image: The Whitworth, The University of Manchester (Alan Williams)