Nicole Wermers, ‘Day Care’ (2024). Installation view, The Common Guild at 60 York Street, Glasgow. Courtesy the artist; Herald St, London; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York and Los Angeles; Jessica Silverman, San Francisco; and Produzentengalerie Hamburg. Photo: Ruth Clark.
Join visual artist Elke Finkenauer, curator and textile artist Sabrina Henry, and writer and programmer Caitlin Merrett King for a roundtable conversation focusing on our current exhibition, Nicole Wermers’ ‘Day Care’.
Roundtable Conversations are intended to offer space for dialogue and the opportunity to develop ideas prompted by our exhibitions and projects. Each invited participant will share a provocation intended for wider discussion with a group of up to ten people. We encourage all participants to join in the discussion; come prepared with thoughts, critiques and questions.
Elke Finkenauer is a visual artist working in sculpture and drawing. She has an MFA from Glasgow School of Art (2015). Recent project ‘BitParts’ (2020–23), was a durational drawing project based on an analogue dataset developed in parallel with research undertaken at Creative Informatics, University of Edinburgh. In 2022 she was awarded the Glasgow Visual Artist and Craft Maker Bursary. She sits on the LUX board of trustees.
Sabrina Henry is a curator, costume, and textile artist. Her curatorial work creates spaces to think through questions related to diasporic presence in Scotland, contributing to the wider discourse around the legacies of colonialism, power, and modernity. Her costume and textile practice focuses on geographies of the Atlantic, using handcraft techniques to create contemporary artefacts that connect pre-colonial traditions with the contemporary British experience. She is Head of Programme at the Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow.
Caitlin Merrett King studied MLitt Art Writing at Glasgow School of Art (2022). She is Programme Coordinator at David Dale Gallery, coordinates Glasgow Art Map, runs Lunchtime Gallery and is a Director of Good Press. ‘Always Open Always Closed’ (2023), Merrett King’s novella, is published by JOAN.
Event Details
Places are limited and booking is required.
All participants are encouraged join in the discussion.
Refreshments will be provided.
Time
Thursday 18 April, 6–8pm.
The event will begin promptly at 6pm.
Location
Capella Building
60 York Street Glasgow, G2 8JX
The Common Guild is on the 7th Floor.
Transport Links: Glasgow Central Station is a five minute walk away.
Access
There is ramped access from the street to the ground floor reception.
The 7th floor is accessible by lift from the reception area.
There are double doors in the lift lobby on the 7th floor. Please ring the doorbell for assistance.
