Join artist Emma Cousin and writer Claire-Louise Bennett as they explore Cousin’s exhibition New Dirt, examining dirt and digging for its relation to life cycles, loss, exhaustion, and ideas of being present. For both, language is a system to simultaneously be pushed to breaking point and luxuriated in. Everyday objects float free to become contingent and amplified, conjuring powerfully affective intensities and readings.

This event will take place online. Please book a ticket through the link below, and you will be emailed with information on joining the conversation shortly before the event is due to take place.

BIOGRAPHIES

Claire-Louise Bennett is the author of Pond (Fitzcarraldo, 2015), and Fish Out of Water, a personal take on the artwork of Dorothea Tanning (Juxta Press, 2020). Her fiction and essays have featured in many publications, including gorse, The White Review, Harper’s, frieze, Artforum, Music and Literature, The New York Times, and Vogue Italia. She lives in Ireland.

Emma Cousin (b.1986, Yorkshire) lives and works in London. Solo shows 2018/19 include: Milton Keynes Art Centre; Dolph Projects, Lewisham Arthouse Gallery and Edel Assanti Gallery, London. Recent group exhibitions 2019/20 include: Jerwood Visual Arts show ‘Survey’ at The Baltic Newcastle, Bluecoats Liverpool and G39 Cardiff; ‘Ultra’ at J.Hammond Projects London; ‘Fumblelove” at ASC Gallery, London; ‘Ridiculous’ at Elephant West; Soft Bodies, at Castlefield Gallery, Manchester and ‘Outlines’ at Austin Desmond Gallery, London. Emma is a visiting lecturer at Sotheby’s and teaches on Foundation at the Art Academy London. Emma graduated from Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, University of Oxford in 2007. She started her own project space, Bread and Jam in 2015-17, which she ran for 2 years in her home in Brockley. She recently established the podcast ‘Chats with artists under lockdown’.