Tuesday 22 October 2019

Tuesday Talk: John Plowman

11am—12.30pm

The Tuesday 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, no need to book.

John Plowman is an artist, curator and the co-founder with Nicola Streeten of Beacon project in rural Lincolnshire, an initiative that reflects his interest in articulating the relationship between the production of art and the site of its production and exhibition. It offers opportunities to experience contemporary visual art in non-gallery settings, has so far commissioned context-specific artworks from over seventy artists and has hosted numerous artistic residencies. The questions of the place where the work is made - the studio - and space where it is shown also dominate Plowman's selection of works as a guest curator of the current exhibition at Castlefield Gallery, No Particular Place to Go? (until 27 October). The exhibition provides a temporary 'home' for a gathering of historical and recent small-scale works by a number of sculptors associated with the gallery over the past 35 years, including Anthony Caro and Henry Moore, while it also celebrates the continued validity of the autonomous object.