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For further information
please contact :

Pat Farquharson, School Secretary
email: p.farquharson@rgu.ac.uk
tel: 00 44 (0)1224 263602

GUEST @ GRAY'S
Co-ordinated by Iain Irving

The Guests @ Gray’s visiting lecture programme is an important input into the continuous learning of our students and staff as a means of informing the School’s practice and research culture. The programme takes the form of a weekly Thursday lecture and question time and is open to all. It enables students and staff to encounter diverse approaches to art and design practice and research that stimulate, inform and challenge, helping to map and understand today’s professional and cultural context. The events are programmed with this in mind, and draw on the personal and professional connections made by Gray’s staff, nationally and internationally.

Lectures have included a diverse range of guests:
Russian textile artist, Natalia Tsvetkova; artist, Melanie Carvalho; Danish artist, Elsebeth Jorgensen; Cabin Exchange curators and artists, Will Foster and Charlotte Bosanquet; film maker and artist, Alex Hetherington; artist, Catherine Whippey; Peter Davidson, author of “The Idea of North”; London based textile artist and author, Suzanne Lee; Dundee-based artist, Eddie Summerton and. Glasgow-based painter, Merlin James and poet, Donny O’Rourke; Paul Simmons of award-winning designers Timorous Beasties.



Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison

Significant international speakers have specifically helped to inform and shape our research agenda, such as Canadian-based Stuart Walker an authority on sustainable design and craft; Aija Druvaskalne-Urdze, Latvian artist, researcher and educator, discussing art projects and social engagement in the Eastern European context; Ross Sinclair and Craig Richardson’s dialogue concerning Scottish social landscape and cultural heritage; Fred Inglis, a leading exponent of critical cultural studies; John Plowman’s Beacon Project involving artwork sited in a rural context; and the seminal lectures and events run in collaboration with Gray’s On the Edge research programme with American artists Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison, founders of art and ecology, and the artist and writer Suzanne Lacy, on issues of art and public.

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