Basic Talks: Jonathan Mayhew

Hugh Lane Gallery

Join us for a talk with artist Jonathan Mayhew, as part of our Basic Talks programme.Jonathan Mayhew is an Irish artist and occasional writer based in Dublin. Using poetry, literature, technology and theory, he manipulates physical and invisible materials creating works in a variety of media, questioning the world we live in. He is interested in how we think about technology and society, how we use it and how it in turn uses us, while exploring the blurring edges of fiction and reality. His works offers a poetic escape from the hyper reality we live in.Jonathan was the TBG&amp;S/HIAP international residency exchange awardee 2019 and was the EVA Emerging Artist for Wexford in 2016.Along side his artistic practice, he has also worked as director of One Gallery in Dublin and curator at Monster Truck Gallery.He’s most recently written for the Rumpus and has shown work as part of Earth Rising at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2022.Basic Talks is a series of talks with leading contemporary practitioners, taking place at the Hugh Lane Gallery. Curated by Basic Space in partnership with Hugh Lane Gallery, BASIC TALKS is a platform for lectures, workshops, presentations, and performances. Speakers include artists, curators, writers, and critics who will generate discourse on producing, framing and exhibiting art. BASIC TALKS is a collaboration between Basic Space and the Hugh Lane Gallery, exploring alternatives in the dissemination of contemporary art and its discourses.

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