Join us for the first session of this year’s IOTAII seminar series, a joint book discussion with Susan Sainsbury, author of Undressed, and Suzanne Joinson, author of The Museum of Lost and Fragile Things, chaired by Annebella Pollen.

IOTAII – Material Memoirs: Telling Tales through Things

5:30-7pm, Wednesday 30 October 2024

University of Brighton

Grand Parade, Main building, M2

All welcome.

Free entry, but please book: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/centre-for-design-history-university-of-brighton

To celebrate the autumn 2024 release of two new books, which both use objects to narrate selves and lives, please join Annebella Pollen, Professor of Visual and Material Culture at the University of Brighton, as she introduces the authors and brings them together in conversation.

Susan Sainsbury is a Brighton-based illustrator, seamstress and author of three graphic novels. She is a former graduate from the University of Brighton’s MA in Sequential Design. Undressed is a series of linked illustrated stories from one woman’s life, highlighting how she expresses her ideas and personality through her clothes. It deals with the pressure to conform and the need the express ourselves as individuals through what we wear. The stories demonstrate how clothes can both mask and reveal our identities.

Suzanne Joinson is a Worthing-based author of two novels and is Reader in Creative Writing at the University of Chichester. The Museum of Lost and Fragile Things is Suzy’s memoir of growing up on a council estate in 1980s Crewe, where her parents were followers of The Divine Light Mission cult. This clash of class and counterculture destroyed her family, leaving a legacy of turmoil and poverty. Years later, she attempts to piece what was lost. She acquires replicas of beloved objects that had to be destroyed in regular purges in the hope of restoring family ties.

All welcome.

Free entry, but please book: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/centre-for-design-history-university-of-brighton

Hosted by the Centre for Design History.