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| Stewart Lee |
Lily Ferret
Zara Auckbarallee
Stewart Lee
SJ Fowler
National Gallery
Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 5DN
14th March 2025
A remarkable project which allows Kingston University students and guest poets to write new performance works about paintings in the National Gallery, supported by curator Joseph Kendra and WK director SJ Fowler. Performed to full and generous audiences 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.
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| Zara Auckbarallee |
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 has pioneered this gallery project with new ekphrastic poems, chosen from the National Galleries world renown collection, offering alternative interpretations of their meaning, history and standing.
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| SJ Fowler |
The audience join the hundreds of late night gallery goers as they wander the rooms of the National Gallery. Invited guests from Writers’ Kingston, students and staff from Kingston University, as well as further afield, wander from painting to painting experiencing the poetry performances in front of the chosen artworks.
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| Lily Ferret |
