Event overview
Department of Art Public Talks Programme Autumn 2015
Contemporary Art Talks: ADAM DANT
Adam Dant’s monumental narrative ink drawings combine depictions of familiar public spaces and architecture with various mythologies and histories. Their construction involves a great deal of historical research which accounts for the ‘multi-layered’ and ‘information- heavy’ aspect to his work.
His recent museum show ‘Dant on Drink’ at The New Art Gallery Walsall engaged with the history, politics, language and culture of the British relationship with drink through four huge tableau drawings and various pieces of printed ephemera. His five year pamphleteering project ‘Donald Parsnips Daily Journal’ took as it’s inspiration the birth and the form of 18th century newspapers and saw the artist distributing 100 copies of the journal by hand daily until it’s cessation at the end of the millennium. In common with much of Dant’s work the Daily Journal saw the artist directly occupy a very public realm whilst drawing on the origins of various printmaking techniques.
His series of prints ‘The Triumph of Debt’ catalogued the excesses and travails of The Banking and Investment community. Dant worked within the City of London, Canary Wharf and The Private Hedge fund offices of Mayfair to directly document and encapsulate within a wider historical context ‘The Credit Crunch’ and the minutiae of it’s attendant culture and particularities.
Born in 1967 in Cambridge Adam Dant studied Fine Art Printmaking at The Royal College of Art; MS University, Baroda, India; Liverpool School of Art and HDK Berlin. He was the recipient of The Rome Scholarship in Printmaking in 1993 and in 2003 was The winner of The Jerwood Drawing Prize. Dant’s work is exhibited internationally and is in the collections of Tate Britain; MOMA New York; Deutsche Bank; UBS; Musee D’Art Contemporain, Lyon; HRH Prince of Wales; Museum of London & various other public and private collections.
This event is free. No booking is required. All welcome.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 28 Oct 2015 | 5:30pm - 7:00pm |
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