https://pickerpubliclectures.com PickerPublicLectures Thu, 23 Apr 2026 10:08:40 +0000 https://pickerpubliclectures.com en https://pickerpubliclectures.com/FINAL-MAIN-PAGE Thu, 23 Apr 2026 09:23:18 +0000 PickerPublicLectures https://pickerpubliclectures.com/FINAL-MAIN-PAGE STANLEY PICKER PUBLIC LECTURES & EVENTS Dept. of FINE ART The ACTS programme ran between 2020 and 2023 to explore how artists might conceive of staging speculative events online.  ACTS ARCHIVE ACT I (2020) Stephen SutcliffeJenna CollinsSteven Warwick ACT II (2020) Bill LeslieDaniel ShankenMatt Williams + MOBBS ACT III (2020) Barby Asante Emma Hart Joey RykenACT IV (2021) Alice Gale-Feenymayfield brooks and Mary Pearson ACT V (2021) Rindon Johnson ACT VI (2022) Cédric MaridetRYBN.ORG Nils RöllerACT VII (2022) Amy HaleAnne TallentireJoanna Walsh ACT VIII (2023) JJJJJerome Ellis John Hughes & The Very Loud Reading Group Kingston School of Art / About / Terms ︎ Copyright 2026 https://pickerpubliclectures.com/Subscribe Wed, 09 Sep 2020 11:06:09 +0000 PickerPublicLectures https://pickerpubliclectures.com/Subscribe Subscribe to our mailing lists to recieve information on upcoming events and new additions to the website by sending us an email with ‘Subscribe’ in the subject line. pickerpubliclectures@gmail.com https://pickerpubliclectures.com/About Fri, 28 Aug 2020 13:26:39 +0000 PickerPublicLectures https://pickerpubliclectures.com/About The Fine Art Stanley Picker lectures and events programme aims to present significant discussions and developments within contemporary art practice to a wide and diverse audience. It contributes significantly to addressing key issues pertinent to the Fine Art department and beyond by bringing students and staff into contact with a range of practices and ideas.   The Stanley Picker public programme is devised yearly by Fine Art staff and works in partnership with the ICA, London. Other venues and approaches - including this website - contribute to a desire to articulate current issues for those working as artists now and in the future. This website is a repository and platform for past, current and future activities, complementing, reflecting on and extending events that take place on-line and IRL. With generous support from the Stanley Picker Trust. https://pickerpubliclectures.com/Terms Fri, 10 Jul 2020 11:01:22 +0000 PickerPublicLectures https://pickerpubliclectures.com/Terms The lecture series and this website is funded by the Stanley Picker Trust. Registered Charity Number: 271185 https://www.stanleypickertrust.org Kingston University London, Kingston School of Art, Grange Road, Kingston upon Thames KT1 2QJ https://www.kingston.ac.uk/ All copyright of artworks remain with the artists, all website images are copyright of https://www.pickerpubliclectures.com, 2020. CONTACT US: pickerpubliclectures@gmail.com https://pickerpubliclectures.com/ACTS_project-page Sat, 29 Aug 2020 21:18:14 +0000 PickerPublicLectures https://pickerpubliclectures.com/ACTS_project-page ACT IOct 7 - Jan 31 Stephen SutcliffeJenna CollinsSteven Warwick This iteration of the Stanley Picker Public Lecture Programme invites selected practitioners to consider what it means to stage an online event  as a way to distribute artistic knowledge. For ACTS, our first online presentation programme, we have invited a number of artists to consider formats of and approaches to virtual acts. ENTER ︎ACT I information and biographies pdf https://pickerpubliclectures.com/Archive-intro Fri, 28 Aug 2020 08:41:55 +0000 PickerPublicLectures https://pickerpubliclectures.com/Archive-intro ARCHIVE  RECORDS AND MATERIALS by seriesEvents delivered in partnership with the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London. Series 2022 Nils Röller Cédric Maridet RYBN.ORG Amy Hale Series 2021 Rindon Johnson Alice Gale-Feeny mayfield brooks and Mary Pearson Series 2020 Barby Asante Jenna Collins Emma Hart Bill Leslie Joey Ryken Daniel Shanken Stephen Sutcliffe Steven Warwick Matt Williams + MOBBS Series 2019 N. Katherine Hayles Daniel Shanken Steven Warwick Series 2018 Dennis Cooper + Zac Farley Stephen Sutcliffe Ros Murray Series 2017  Laura Mulvey Anne Bean Georgina Starr Goshka Macuga Series 2016  Ansel Krut Nicole Wermers + Joshua Simon Sarah Michelson Series 2015 Doug Ashford Gavin Turk Sophie von Hellermann Rose Wylie Series 2014  Fiona BannerMarvin Gaye ChetwyndKatrin PlavcakStephan Dillemuth Series 2010 Cosey Fanni TuttiDavid Burrows + Andy SharpChad McCailAnthony Davies + Benedict Seymour https://pickerpubliclectures.com/Stephen-Sutcliffe-1 Fri, 14 Aug 2020 09:38:04 +0000 PickerPublicLectures https://pickerpubliclectures.com/Stephen-Sutcliffe-1  Cymbeline (2020) Stephen Sutcliffe  Glasgow based artist Stephen Sutcliffe creates film collages from an extensive archive of British television, film sound, broadcast images and spoken word recordings which he has been collecting since childhood. Often reflecting on aspects of British culture and identity, the results are melancholic, poetic and satirical amalgams which subtly tease out and critique ideas of class-consciousness and cultural authority. Through an extensive editing process Sutcliffe’s works pitch sound against image to subvert predominant narratives, generating alternative readings through the juxtaposition and synchronisation of visual and aural material.Stephen Sutcliffe (b.1968, Harrogate) is an artist who lives and works in Glasgow. Recent solo exhibitions include, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart (2019). Talbot Rice Edinburgh, Hepworth Wakefield (2017), Rob Tufnell, London (2015), Tramway, Glasgow (2013) Stills, Edinburgh (2011), Whitechapel Auditorium (2010), Cubitt, London (2009) and Art Now, Light Box, Tate Britain (2005). Group exhibitions include: Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Cubitt, London, Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon and Gaudel De Stampa, Paris (2015). In 2018 he participated in the Manchester International Festival in collaboration with Graham Eatough on a film for the Whitworth Gallery, for which they won the Contemporary Arts Society Award. He has been shortlisted for the Jarman Award twice and in 2012 he won the Margaret Tait Award. This year he has had two books published published, ‘at Fifty’ (Sternberg Press) a monograph and ‘Much Obliged’, (Book Works) a kind of autobiography. He has recently curated an exhibition of items from the Herbert Read Archive at the Brotherton Library in Leeds University with the arts group Pavillion, which is accompanied by a new video, 'City of Dreadful Something'. https://pickerpubliclectures.com/Jenna-Collins-1 Thu, 23 Apr 2026 09:45:24 +0000 PickerPublicLectures https://pickerpubliclectures.com/Jenna-Collins-1 Internal Dissolve (2020) Jenna Collins ‘Internal Dissolve’ is imagined as a tourist video of sorts. The assembled material constitutes a hot crowd containing an extract from a Pier Paolo Pasolini screenplay, tourist footage (frequently the artist’s own) and footage from people testing camera functions only to get distracted by details of the world made special by the viewfinder. The tourist is adept at being a bit bored and then engrossed by some thing or other, a speculating presence engaged in, or thinking about, the possibility and cost of further escapes. Jenna Collins’ practice speculates on the impulses sublimated in small extracts of minor-speech and equivalent objects, encouraging them to flourish. Recent work has focused on the technological as a site of political, poetic and philosophical potential. The moving image, in all its current divergent forms (understood as a broad sphere of activity rather than merely a specific media outcome) is one such site, which the artist engages with in reflexive video, sound and text artworks. Jenna Collins lives and works in London and Yorkshire. Recent solo, group and collaborative exhibitions, screenings and broadcasts include, September Garden with We Are Publication (WAP) at Camden Arts Centre, (2020). The Hold, with WAP at The Stanley Picker Gallery, London (2019). Technologies Of The Self, SUPERLUX, Aberdeen (2019). We.Are.Cut.Up. with WAP, Pratt Institute, New York (2019). Two External Light Sources with Alice Rekab Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin (2018). We Are the Road, London International Film Festival, London (2018). Late Junction, BBC Radio 3 (2018). Cafe OTO, supporting Heretics, London (2018). TLC with 0s+1s, Casa Victor Hugo, Havana, Cuba and the Gotland Art Museum, Sweden (2017). The Grand Alliance, Quick Millions, London (2016). Plague of Diagrams, with Rachel Cattle, ICA, London (2015). Collins holds a PhD (AHRC) from The Contemporary Art Research Centre, Kingston School of Art and is currently writing, ‘One, 2,3’, a novel for Joan, a new publishing project supporting interdisciplinary artists' writing. jennacollins.com https://pickerpubliclectures.com/Steven-Warwick-3 Fri, 29 Jan 2021 22:24:40 +0000 PickerPublicLectures https://pickerpubliclectures.com/Steven-Warwick-3  A Year Without Summer (2020)   Steven Warwick  A Year Without SummerWhen someone makes a statement, one must ensure that it is accurately communicated.This can be ensured by articulating the sentence slowly, clearly, and at an audible volumeSometimes a sentence is wilfully obscured, this leads to its meaning being altered.This wilfully altered sentence could take someone’s words out of contextThis sentence out of context could make someone appear to say something they didn’t intended to sayOr worse, they could be accused of saying the opposite of what they first uttered.This can be construed as a lie or falsehoodThis can be construed as a defamatory comment towards an individual or group.This sentence in term could itself be a legal allegation of defamation of characterOr as it alternatively known, character assassination.This wilful twisting of a person’s words can create a new perception of character of the now accused, in a positive or negative light.This new found light or reading of the perceived character could lead to them being ostracized or excommunicated from a group or community. Without a chance to defend oneself against accusations, the sentence can further alienate the accused inside or outside of a community. Language and words can be used to convince and influence others in an argument of rhetoric.In an argument or debate it is important to listen to the other side even if one doesn’t agree with what is being said. Hyperbolic statements should be contested by the asking of further questions to verify a claim of a consensus of truth. Without access to a variety of sources, it is difficult to make an informed choice or opinion.Gossip is a transmission, a currency and an abstraction of a perceived set of behaviour. Steven Warwick performs a text at a public bench in Berlin which allows sound/speech to refract along the perimeter of the bench in a similar way to the Whispering Gallery at St Paul's Cathedral in London. The Text concerns the viral transmission of language and it's accompanying mutations as it travels. Steven Warwick is an artist, writer and musician based in Berlin. His visual practice constructs situations with interweaving narratives across various media such as performance, installation, sculpture, plays and films. He also has recently collaborated on projects including the “Mezzanine” musical performance series choreographed with dancers, the artist duo Elevator to Mezzanine which has produced exhibitions, artist books and recently a Western musical titled "Performing America (Iconic America)" . The audiovisual performance- lecture series “Fear Indexing the X- Files” was issued as a book by Primary Information. Warwick’s writing has appeared in Artforum, Texte zur Kunst, Frieze and Urbanomic. His visual work has been shown at KW Berlin; SMK, Copenhagen; Steirischer Herbst, Austria; The Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; Lars Friedrich, Berlin ; Cleopatra's, Brooklyn; Beach Office, Berlin ; Balice Hertling, New York. As a musician working under his own name and, previously, as "Heatsick", he produces and performs a hybrid live/ DJ set, releasing recordings with the club/experimental label PAN and has played at Berghain, Berlin; London Contemporary Music Festival; Stony Island Arts Bank, Chicago; Issue Project Room, New York; and the Mutek and Unsound Festivals. https://pickerpubliclectures.com/Bill-Leslie-1 Thu, 23 Apr 2026 10:08:40 +0000 PickerPublicLectures https://pickerpubliclectures.com/Bill-Leslie-1 Score for Six Small Sculpture (2020) Bill Leslie  A series of small sculptures are placed in front of the camera. Each object was made in response to household objects used earlier this summer during lockdown, in a video made as part of a Digital Residency with Black Mountain College Museum and Art Center. The aim was to catch the spontaneity and playfulness of the original objects. The result, something like a set of odd instruments and children's toys which are played for the camera, creating an ad hoc choreography of movement and sound. Bill Leslie puts sculptures in front of cameras to see what can happen. Often small, handmade and playful, his objects and films explore the relationship of sculpture, camera and person. The objects he makes are invitations for play and physical exploration using the camera as an onlooker, instigator and conspirator. A presence which changes the way we think and act towards sculptures. He has shown work in galleries, project spaces including Tate, Barbican, Wimbledon Art Space, The Royal Standard, Arnolfini and ASC Gallery. He finished a PhD at Kingston School of Art earlier this year titled ‘Good Enough Sculptures: What Happens When Sculptures are Made to be Filmed?’