26th Sept // Performance and Artist Panel with Laura M R Harrison, Bridget Kennedy, and Dr. Elizabeth Fisher

Performance and Artist Panel with Laura M R Harrison, Bridget Kennedy, and Dr. Elizabeth Fisher

Saturday 26th September

1pm

£12

Join artist Laura M R Harrison for the closing event of Seventy-Three Fingers of Jupiter, an evening of performance and conversation delving deeper into the exhibition's themes.

Beginning with a live performance of Cartomancy for the Seer of Not-Knowing, the evening continues with a panel discussion and audience Q&A featuring Laura, Bridget Kennedy, and Dr. Elizabeth Fisher. Together, they will explore ideas and questions arising from the work, including divination, not-knowing, and possible futures.

Lizzie Fisher is a curator and art historian with a special interest in the overlooked art histories of Cumbria. Over the course of her career in museums in the UK & USA she curated over 120 exhibitions and published extensively on C20th and contemporary artists' practices, from On Not Knowing: How Artists Think with Rebecca Fortnum (Black Dog 2013) to the forthcoming book chapter “Paper Clouds: Kurt Schwitters’ material entanglements” in Sensorial Modernities ed. Docx, Hudson, Lynn & Phillips (Routledge Visual Modernities series). In 2013, after 10 years as Curator of Exhibitions and Collections at Kettle's Yard she left to pursue research interests. She completed her doctorate at the University of Cambridge in 2019, moved to Cumbria and was awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship to examine experimental and expanded arts practices in the rural north between 1945-80 through the lens of exile. She continues to research, teach and lecture on C20th and C21st artists, writers and patrons who have forged vibrant intellectual and creative networks centred on Cumbria. She is principal of Higham Hall College in the North Lakes, an educational trust supporting adult education in the arts and humanities.

Bridget Kennedy is a visual artist who lives in the midst of a post-industrial landscape on the outskirts of a remote North Pennine village in the UK. She uses drawing, digital collage, sculpture, live performance, photography and video as tools of investigation and creative expression. During recent doctoral research she has worked with practices of divination such as dowsing, scrying and tarot to explore the landscape of Sellafield nuclear industrial complex and related archival materials. Bridget is a part time lecturer in the Fine Art department at Newcastle University and a member of the Nuclear Culture Research Group.

Laura M R Harrison's artwork and research explores the psychological state of not-knowing, particularly in relation to personal futures, and how not-knowing might be repurposed as a state of unbounded possibility and potential. Her current body of work draws from mysterious ancient monuments and standing stones, folklore, and references the tools and rituals of fortune-telling and divinatory practices.

Laura's practice is centred on an installation-based approach and often engages the senses through combinations of video, audio, sculpture and found objects. She specialises in working with alternative exhibition spaces and considers the context and setting in which her work is shown to be an integral part of her practice.

Laura lives and works in North Cumbria. She holds a BA in Fine Art and an MA in Contemporary Fine Art, and is a member of Art Crit North Cumbria, Carlisle Writers Group and the Artists’ Research Group (ARG).