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Events
Friday Lectures
Clore Auditorium 13.00
Admission Free
Friday 15 June
James Gillray
Richard Godfrey, curator of Tate Britain's Gillray exhibition
Friday 22 June
James Gillray and the Satiric Tradition
Mark Hallett, lecturer at the University of York and author of Hogarth
(2000)
Friday 29 June
Beneath James Gillray: Prints, Printing and Radicalism
David Worrall, lecturer at St Mary's College, University of Surrey
Friday 13 July
James Gillray: Against the 'Triumph of Ye Arts Polite'
Timothy Hyman, artist, curator and co-author of Carnivalesque (2000)
Gallery Talk
Thursday 26 July, 13.15
Interpreting Gillray
Sarah Hyde, Tate Britain Interpretation Curator
Meet at exhibition entrance
Printing Demonstrations
Saturday 30 June and Saturday 7 July, 13.15
Gillray's Technique
John Freeman, artist
Meet at The Studio
Evening Events
All Events 18.30
Clore Auditorium
Tickets: £6 (£3 concessions)
Monday 18 June
Gerald Scarfe
Gerald Scarfe is one of Britain's best-known caricaturists. His
35-year career has included a regular slot in Private Eye, art work
for Pink Floyd's film, The Wall, the title sequences for Yes Minister,
and director of animation for Walt Disney's film, Hercules. In this
event he talks to Richard Godfrey, curator of the James Gillray
exhibition, about his own and Gillray's work, and about the overlaps
between caricature and art.
Wednesday 4 July
Cartoonists in Conversation
Guardian cartoonists Steve Bell, Posy Simmonds (creator of Gemma
Bovery), and Martin Rowson join the writer and critic, Frank Whitford
to talk about the role of caricature in the past and today. They
review highlights of their own work and look back on examples by
Gillray and others in order to discuss how the language and concerns
of graphic satire have developed and changed over the past three
hundred years.
Student Seminar
Wednesday 13 June, 14.30
MA History of Art group from University College London discuss
Gillray and Caricature with guest speakers Stephen Deuchar,
Tate Britain Director, Martin Rowson, Caricaturist and Timothy Hyman,
artist, curator and writer.
Meet at Clore Auditorium
Call Tate Ticketing on 020 7887 8888 to book.
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