No Rules: an Abstract Art Symposium
The American artist Helen Frankenthaler (1928–2011) said “There are no rules” governing how one should make a picture or painting… “that is how art is born, that is how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules, that is what invention is about.”
The NO RULES Symposium brings together five leading contemporary abstract painters alongside internationally renowned critics and curators to discuss innovation and creative freedom, their own practices and to reflect upon Frankenthaler’s work and legacy. Through an exploration of contemporary artworks and recent exhibitions this day long symposium will investigate how abstract painting relates to painting’s histories, to questions of subjectivity and representation, and to the contemporary world around us.
This is part of a series of events by Dulwich Picture Gallery in collaboration with Camberwell College of Arts.
Venue: Camberwell College of Art
For UAL concession tickets, please call 020 8693 5254 to book your tickets. Your UAL student ticket price also includes free entry to the Helen Frankenthaler Radical Beauty exhibition, so please ask about booking this when you call or email enquiries@dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk quoting your symposium ticket order number to book.
Line up
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Gary Wragg
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Crystal Fischetti
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Melissa Gordon
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Rachel Jones
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Katie Pratt
There will be a Q&A session at the end of the Symposium for the guest speakers to answer public questions.
A drinks reception will follow the event, from 6pm. Access to the drinks reception and free drinks will be included in the ticket price. This talk will be recorded.
This event was curated with Professor Daniel Sturgis. Daniel Sturgis is a British artist and professor of painting at the University of the Arts London, Camberwell College of Arts. He is a founding associate editor of The Journal for Contemporary Painting, a specialist selector and chapter author for Phaidon’s painting anthology Vitamin P3 and he has written for Tate Papers, Burlington Magazine and Texte zur Kunst.
