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Nengi Omuku, Eden, 2022
30 March 2023 Curator's CPD Programme

CPD Gallery Walk

Please join us for an evening of gallery exhibitions Details of the exhibitions: The Healing Pavilion is a new art commission by British-Kenyan visual artist Grace Ndiritu. The Twin Tapestries’…
Ibrahim Mahama Photo © White Cube George Darrell
19 April 2023 Curator's CPD Programme

CPD Hospitality | Art Dialogue: Ibrahim Mahama

Ibrahim Mahama in conversation with Marie Helene Pereira   As part of our Hospitality series, we will hear Ibrahim Mahama speak about his residency project in Ghana. The residency offers…
new systems of thinking
28 April 2023 Curator's CPD Programme

CPD Symposium: New Genealogies of Art History/New Systems of Thinking

This symposium wants to rethink and challenge the systems in which the art world operates from museums, galleries and art institutions (including organisations such as CAS) to working with artists…
Ali Cherri © Ali Cherri
10 May 2023 Curator's CPD Programme

CPD Hospitality | Art Dialogue: Ali Cherri

Ali Cherri in conversation with Reem Shadid   Join us for the first talk of the series ‘Artists and Collections: Expanding Practices’, a collaboration between the Contemporary Art Society and…
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18 May 2023 Curator's CPD Programme

CPD Curators Day London Visits

Join us for an afternoon of London gallery visits.   Schedule of the day: 1.00 – 2.00 Lunch at October Gallery, 24 Old Gloucester St, WC1N 3AL. 2.30 – 3.30…
Stacy Lynn Waddell
24 May 2023 Curator's CPD Programme

CPD Hospitality | Art Dialogue: Stacy Lynn Waddell

Stacy Lynn Waddell (b. North Carolina, 1966) lives and works in North Caroline. Recent solo exhibition include CANDICE MADEY, New York, NY (2021); Visual Arts Center of Richmond, Richmond, VA…
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7 June 2023 Curator's CPD Programme

CPD Craft Day

Studio Visit Bisili Noha EAST Visit to exhibition of Bouke de Vries and Rochester Square An acclaimed ceramicist Bouke de Vries’ work will respond to William Hogarth’s A Rake’s Progress.…
Antonio Obá, At the gates of Paradise (2020). Courtesy the artist and Liverpool Biennial.
8 Jun 2023—9 Jun 2023 Curator's CPD Programme

CPD Curators’ Trip

The 12th edition of Liverpool Biennial ‘uMoya: The sacred Return of Lost Things’ addresses the history and temperament of the city of Liverpool and is a call for ancestral and…
Portugal
19 Jun 2023—21 Jun 2023 Curator's CPD Programme

CPD TRIP Lisbon and Porto

Please join us for a 3 full days of museums, galleries and studio visits in Lisbon and Porto. The trip will start on Monday 19 June at 12. The visits…

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Ten Siblings (2021), Mohammed Sami, courtesy of Modern Art and Camden Art Centre
18 March 2023 Talks & Events

CAStour: North London

The Contemporary Art Society tour (CASt) is London’s first and most popular gallery bus tour, taking place throughout the year and offering an inspirational insight into the city’s most exciting…
CPD Craft Day
2 March 2023 Curator's CPD Programme

CPD Visit: VIP Tour of Collect Fair

Join us for a VIP Tour of Collect Fair. We will be touring the fair with Sarah Griffin, curator and craft expert. Collect Fair will showcase work made in the…
11 February 2023 Talks & Events

Artist Talk: Nicole Wermers in conversation with Penelope Curtis followed by Gallery Walking Tour, East London

We are thrilled to invite you to join us for a breakfast talk by artist Nicole Wermers in conversation with art historian and curator Penelope Curtis at Herald St. Their…
The Madonna of the Cat, after Barocci (2022) by Ali Cherri. Photo credit - Garry Jones Photography for Culture Coventry
12 December 2022 Curator's CPD Programme

Artists and Collections: Expanding Practices

Histories of Trauma: On the Representation of Violence in Collections Timings: 13.00- 13.10 Welcome by Ilaria Puri Purini, Contemporary Art Society, Martin Roberts, Herbert Art Gallery, Daniel Herrmann, Curator of…

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