Five Remarkable Women – Leonora Carrington
Mon 25 Nov 2024, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Join Louise Lahive for a talk about Leonora Carrington.
In May 2024 Leonora Carrington’s work ‘Les Distractions de Dagobert’ was sold for £22.5 million at Sotheby’s auction house in New York. At the time, this was a record amount paid for a work by a British-born female artist. But not many people have ever heard of Leonora here in her native country. Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) was an artist whose life was one of resistance and courage in a time of massive upheaval and she has left behind a body of groundbreaking and fascinating work.
Event Information
Price: £18.00
Course Weeks: 1
Room: Kincaid Hall
Campaign: Autumn Term 2024
Your Tutor
Name: Louise Lahive
Bio: Louise Lahive is an artist who graduated from Kingston University in 1999 and since this time has worked and lived in the USA and UK. In 2012 Lahive became an elected fellow at Digswell Arts and in 2021 she graduated from the University of Hertfordshire with an MA in Fine Art. As well as pursuing her own practice, Lahive works as a visiting lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire and as a project leader for arts programs in junior schools across Hertfordshire. Lahive’s work is engaged with a ‘re-imaging’ of the body alongside internal symbolic langue and is held in private collections in the UK, USA and China.
Department: Humanities
