Invitation
Artists’ talk accompanying the
current show ‘Autoethnos’
29th April 5pm – 6pm
Three artists Susan Diab, Caroline Pick and Isobel Smith jointly present new works in this intriguing group exhibition conceived specifically for C&C Gallery. At heart sculptors, their common concern is to face and expose secrets of the inner world, expressing the intangible and emotional via material means.
Autoethnography is an approach within academic research and writing which places personal, lived experience at the centre of its investigations. It recognises that individuals, living at a particular time within a set of conditions peculiar to them, are representative of and relevant to the wider society. The artists in ‘Autoethnos’ each speak out from their own centre of lived knowledge via the visual aspects of material objects.
The discussion event seeks to investigate what autoethnography might mean for visual art practice and vice versa and should be of interest to all those interested in how experience translates into art.
Entry to this event is free. If you would like to come please RSVP susandiab@hotmail.com to book a seat.
The artists are delighted to join Alec Grant, Juliet Miller and Jess Moriarty in a panel discussion born from the interactions with the works in the exhibition. The event will be chaired by Dr Joanna Gore, Director of C&C Gallery.
Dr Alec Grant is an independent scholar, having retired from his position as Reader in Narrative Mental Health at the University of Brighton in May 2017. He first used autoethnography as a sub-methodological strand to his critical ethnographic PhD in the 1990s. Since then, he has published widely on the approach in journal articles, book chapters and books. He co-edited Contemporary British Autoethnography (Sense Publishers, 2013) and International Perspectives on Autoethnographic Research and Practice (Routledge, 2018). In the context of his long-standing promotion of counter-hegemonic lived-experience narratives, he co-founded the ‘Our Encounters With (OEW)’ book series (Monmouth: PCCS Books) and co-edited three of the texts in this series: OEW Madness (2011), … Suicide (2013), and Stalking (2017).
Juliet Miller is a Jungian analyst with a private practice in London. Prior to training as an analyst, she worked as a documentary film maker on environmental, social and women’s issues. She is especially interested in creative expression and the interface between the arts and psychotherapy. She is co-editor with Jane Haynes of Inconceivable Conceptions. Psychological Aspects of Infertility and Reproductive Technology. Brunner-Routledge (2003). She is author of The Creative Feminine And Her Discontents: Psychotherapy, Art, and Destruction. Karnac Books (2008)
Dr Jessica Moriarty is course leader for the Creative Writing MA and English Literature and Creative Writing BA at the University of Brighton. Her research focuses on autoethnography, writing as a craft, and community engagement. Her doctorate explored her autobiographical experiences with teaching in higher education and in particular the effect of the audit culture on how we teach and how we live.
