Doors open at 6pm
Panel starts at 6.30pm
Join us for a discussion centered around Erica Rutherford's life and work, joined by author and curator Gemma Rolls-Bentley, who has been at the forefront of championing female and queer voices in contemporary art, and Linsey Young, curator of Tate Britain's Women in Revolt! - the first UK exhibition to showcase Rutherford's work for over 5 decades. The talk will be chaired by Daria Khan, curator and founder of the independent non-profit art institution Mimosa House, which supports intergenerational women and queer artists.
The conversation will take place within the framework of Erica Rutherford: The Human Comedy, marking the first UK survey of Rutherford’s work at Richard Saltoun Gallery London, which follows her inclusion in this year’s Venice Biennale and the major museum exhibition Women in Revolt! (Tate Britain; National Galleries of Scotland, 2024/25), as well as her touring retrospective in Canada (Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Charlottetown; touring 2024/25), where she lived and worked for most of her life.
The show spans paintings and works on paper from the 1970s to the 1990s, with a particular emphasis on her later series, The Human Comedy.
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Gemma Rolls-Bentley has been at the forefront of contemporary art for almost two decades, working passionately to champion diversity in the field. Her debut book Queer Art; From Canvas to Club and the Spaces Between was published in Spring 2024 by Frances Lincoln and has been highlighted as a must-read by Them, Dazed, Timeout, The Guardian, Cultured and the FT. Her curatorial practice amplifies the work of female and queer artists and provides a platform for art that explores LGBTQIA+ identity.
Gemma has curated for a range of international galleries and institutions, most recently Carl Freedman Gallery, Leslie Lohman Museum of Art, Somerset House, the Tom of Finland Foundation, London Art Fair and Kkweer Arts. In 2022 she curated the Brighton Beacon Collection, the largest permanent display of queer art in the UK, for Soho House Brighton. Gemma has taught at numerous institutions including the Royal College of Art, the Glasgow School of Art, and Goldsmiths. She co-chairs the board of trustees for the charity Queercircle, sits on the Courtauld Association Committee and the Leslie Lohman Museum Acquisitions Committee.
Linsey Young is a curator and writer. Between 2016 - 2024 she held the position of Curator British Contemporary Art at Tate. In this role she delivered commissions with artists such as Pablo Bronstein and Anthea Hamilton and was lead curator of the Turner Prize in 2016, 2018 and 2024. In 2019 during a sabbatical from Tate she commissioned and curated Charlie Prodger’s presentation at the Venice Biennale. In 2023 she curated the major exhibition and publication project Women In Revolt! Art and Activism in the UK 1970–1990 at Tate Britain (touring to the Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh until January 2025 and The Whitworth Manchester March - June 2025). The first of its kind, the exhibition is a wide-ranging exploration of feminist art by over 100 women artists working in the UK.Young began a LAHP funded PhD at the RCA focused on feminist art practice in September 2024.
Daria Khan is the director and curator of Mimosa House, an independent non-profit art institution that she founded in 2017 in London. Dedicated to artistic experimentation and collaboration, Mimosa House supports intergenerational women and queer artists. Mimosa House is focused on feminism and queer studies, as well as language, poetry and sound based practices.
Daria was a curator in residency at the MuseumsQuartier, Vienna and a participant of EUNIC programme at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris. She participated in talks and conferences at Christ Church, Oxford University; School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Centre Pompidou, and worked on curatorial and educational projects at Austrian Cultural Forum, London; Photographers Gallery, London, Freiraum 21 International, MuseumsQuartier Vienna and the 5th Moscow Biennial, Moscow.
Daria is currently undertaking the PhD at Goldsmiths University, London, with her current research on curatorial strategies for translating, archiving and exhibiting performative poetry in the context of contemporary visual arts.
