DOHA: Award-winning painter Lisa Milroy will give a lecture tomorrow as part of Katara’s Artist Talk and Residency Programme in connection with Encounter: The Royal Academy in the Middle East exhibition.
The Artist Talk, which is open to the public, will be held at 6pm at Katara Building No. 15 while the Residency Programme will begin on Monday and run until February 2 at Katara Art Studios, Building No. 19.
Katara collaborated with The Royal Academy of Arts to co-curate Encounter: The Royal Academy in the Middle East exhibition, which was launched in December and runs until March 6 in Katara Gallery 1 and 2, Building No. 19 and 22. The exhibition features over 80 works of art in a variety of media by 25 Royal Academicians and 25 prominent artists from across the Middle East.
The Artist Talk will comprise a conversation session between artists featured in the exhibition, Milroy, Qatari artists Ibtisam Al Safar and Fatima Al Naimi, as well as Curator, Sa’id Costa.
The Residency Programme aims to orient and guide Qatari artists who have the desire to improve their practice and skills. The programme also provides a platform for sharing knowledge between Katara and the Royal Academy. It will start with a public talk where she will present herself to the Qatari audience, providing them with an overview of her work and career to date.
“This is an excellent opportunity for young Qatari artists to learn the true fundamentals of art from an award-winning artist. It has been a pleasure to have Lisa Milroy share not only her impressive works in this unique exhibition but also her broad experience. This exhibition contributes to our wider vision of nurturing local talents and providing them with a platform to showcase them,” said Dr Khalid Al Sulaiti, General Manager of Katara.
Milroy was born in 1959 in Vancouver, Canada, and graduated from Goldsmiths College of Art, London in 1982. She won the John Moores Prize for Painting in 1989 and was elected to the Royal Academy of Arts in 2006. Residing in London, she has been the head of Graduate Painting at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL since 2009. In 2001 her work was the subject of a major survey at Tate Liverpool and her paintings are held in many private and public collections in the UK and abroad.
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