Posted by Rosie Jennings on June 10th, 2025.
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King’s College London / online
In person: £25 / Online: £7.50
Tuesday 24 June 2025, 09:00–19:30 BST
The conference is convened as a collaboration between Claire Mander/theCOLAB/the Artist’s Garden and Dr Kate McMillan/King’s College London (artist/academic and author of three Freelands Foundation Reports on the Representation of Women artists in the UK). The conference aims to collectively and proactively rethink commissioning of art in public to embrace the often unconventional public spaces and ways in which women artists work.
It brings together prominent thinkers and doers including art historians (Natalie Rudd), writers (The White Pube), commissioners (Claire Doherty/Situations and Bridget Sawyers/Tideway), local authorities (Westminster City Council), artists (including Fiona Banner aka The Vanity Press, Rana Begum) and institutions (Yorkshire Sculpture Park/NMWA). They will explore how best to put neglected public spaces back into use, adopt new commissioning models, create frameworks for accountability, and measure impact to achieve greater gender parity in the field of art in public.
The conference is framed by three new commissions ‘The River’s Stomach (Songs of Empire)’ an audio-visual intervention by Kate McMillan into the Strand Lane Roman Baths; ‘Your meaning not your materiality (YMNYM)’, a performance lecture by Florence Peake and a walking performance by Daisy Collingridge that leads us to The Artist’s Garden, the site of the group exhibition: MARY MARY.
Ticketing information
In person: £25 (waiting list only)
Online: £7.50. Includes a link to download the recording of the conference but please note the performances will not be recorded.
