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Due to unforeseen circumstances, this online talk is postponed until further notice. We apologize for any inconvenience this causes.

Art NOW: Lucy Skaer
Rural Works
12 pm MT | October 20, 2021
uLethbridge Online Presentation
free admission, everyone welcome

The talk will focus on the artist’s recent practice and its relationship to place.

Lucy Skaer is a sculptor whose work slows ideas down to abstractions and makes them concrete. She once put a whale skeleton behind a partitioned wall so that it was only visible one sliver at a time. She represented the ancient Terracotta Army of Chinese funerary figures as 530 tenmoku-glazed stoneware lozenges—an homage, in part, to the British ceramicist Bernard Leach. Who makes history? What is the “grammar” of sameness and difference? How do ideas unfold? These are questions of Skaer’s art.

Skaer received a BA from the Environmental Art Department at Glasgow School of Art. She was a 2009 Turner Prize nominee and participated in the 2018 Carnegie International. She is at work on a commission for the Thames Tideway Sculpture Park for 2024.

The exhibition featuring Lucy Skaer and Rosalind Nashashibi, Farness, The More Near / Consequences, is on view at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery from September 25 to November 14, 2021.

Image courtesy of the artist.

We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts. Nous remercions le Conseil des arts du Canada de son soutien.

Thank you to the Southern Alberta Art Gallery for their collaboration on this presentation.