Archive 2010-11

Lisa Le Feuvre

  • Venue: Fine Art Lecture Theatre
  • Start: Wed, 04 May 2011 11:00:00 BST
  • End: Wed, 04 May 2011 13:00:00 BST

Lisa Le Feuvre is an independent curator and writer and the Head of Sculpture Studies at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds. She is also a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Art on the postgraduate Curating Programme at Goldsmiths and has previously taught at Chelsea School of Art and Design, Royal College of Art, Sotheby's Institute, Birkbeck College, San Francisco Art Institute and Städelschule, among others. She has finished co-curating the British Art Show 7: In the Days of the Comet with Tom Morton which opened at Nottingham Contemporary in Oct 2010. Between 2005 and 2009 Lisa directed the contemporary art programme at the National Maritime Museum, London working with artists Renee Green, Lawrence Weiner, Simon Patterson, Esther Shalev-Gerz, Dan Holdsworth and Jeremy Millar. Other curatorial projects have been staged at CCA, Glasgow; The Photographers' Gallery, London; MOT, London; Stills, Edinburgh; and Arts Council England National Office where she has worked with artists including Gordon Matta-Clark, Dennis Oppenheim, Alexander & Susan Maris and Joachim Koester.

Here at Newcastle University Lisa will be talking about failure as a key concern—as theme, strategy, and world view—of recent art.

 

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