Surprise me
oin us for a lunch time talk by Dr. Katie McGown, Curator of the Sidney Cooper Gallery, Canterbury, and a researcher interested in the shifting and contested territories of art and craft materials and practices in the 20th Century.
She will be discussing the works of the artist Grete Marks featured in the exhibition.
Grete Marks (1899-1990) is known for the remarkable and technically innovative ceramics she designed and produced in her factory in Marwitz, Germany, between 1923 and 1935 when the National Socialists forced its sale. However, the works featured in ‘Refugees – The Lives of Others’ show a very different side to Marks’ artistic practice; intimate portraits of friends made just after she fled to England in 1936. This lecture will discuss those first years in England, the community she found, and the lasting effects that this traumatic relocation had on her work.
All proceeds help to cover the costs of delivery and support the work of the charity.
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Tube: Aldgate Station (5 min walk)
Train: Liverpool Street Station (7 min walk)
