The Hunterian

Accompanying the current Hunterian exhibition Ilana Halperin: Minerals of New York, this event brings Halperin together with author Nicola White to discuss key themes in the show, and in particular the importance of New York as as a cultural context. As part of the event White will read a short story that will appear in a forthcoming book on Halperin's practice.

About the speakers:

Ilana Halperin is an artist based in Glasgow and Bute. Her recent solo exhibitions include:
Geologic Intimacy (Yu no Hana),Fujiya Gallery Hanayamomo (2017); Learning to Read Rocks, An Tobar/Comar, Isle of Mull (2014); The Library, National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh (2013); Steine, Berliner Medizinhistorisches Museum der Charité (2012). Her work has featured in many group exhibitions worldwide, including at Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain, Nice; Musée Zadkine, Paris; The Exploratorium, San Francisco; CAPC Contemporary Art Museum Bordeaux; Kunstmuseen Krefeld; Musée du Cristal Saint-Louis; Extra City, Antwerp. She is currently working on The Rock Cycle (Yamaguchi) an exhibition that will open in Japan this autumn.

Nicola White grew up in Ireland and New York. After moving to Glasgow she worked as a curator at the Centre for Contemporary Art and at Tramway, where her exhibitions included Read My Lips: New York AIDS Polemics featuring artists such as David Wojnarowicz, Jenny Holzer, and Felix Gonzalez-Torres. In 2008 she won the Scottish Book Trust’s New Writer Award, and began to publish short stories in a range of journals, anthologies and for broadcast on Radio 4. Her first novel, In the Rosary Garden, won the Dundee International Book prize and was one of the Glasgow Herald’s 2014 ‘books of the year’.

Image: Pick & Hammer Club at marble outcrop on 207th Street off Broadway, 1942. Image courtesy of the artist and Patricia Fleming, Glasgow.