Are you interested in developing your research skills to inform your artistic practice?

Deliberately informal, The Social includes presentations by photography/arts professionals, offering tips on chosen themes and encourages participants to join the conversation and share their own insights.

The theme for this session is 'doing research' with writer, curator and educator Shirley Read and artist Judy Price. Together they will offer some background and advice related to the theme.

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Biographies:

Judy Price is a London-based artist who works in photography, moving image, sound and installation. Her practice involves extensive field research where she often draws on images and sounds from archival sources, as well as from a sustained study of place to explore sites and locations that are interweaved and striated by multiple histories, economies and forces. She has exhibited her work at a range of venues including Stanley Picker Gallery, Danielle Arnaud Gallery and Stiftelsen 3,14 and USF Centre, Bergen, Norway. Price is an active member of Reclaim Holloway.

Shirley Read is an independent curator based in London. She teaches exhibition workshops at universities, and interviews photographers at length about their life and work for the Oral History of British Photography a sound archive which forms part of National Life Stories at the British Library. She is co-author, with Mike Simmons, of Photographers and Research: The role of research in contemporary photographic practice (Taylor & Francis, 2017), amongst other publications.