Independant Curator | Writer | Cultural Advisor | Mentor

Most recent curatorial project:

Me, Myself, I: Artists’ Self-Portraits

Image: Shani Rhys James MBE RCA. b .1953, Manikin, 2019. Courtesy and © the artist © Gareth Lloyd Hughes

The exhibition I have curated most recently, Me, Myself, I: Artists’ Self-Portraits provides historical context to today’s selfie culture, through an exploration of self-portraiture over the last three hundred years.

A landmark exhibition bringing historical context to today’s ‘selfie culture’ with an illuminating overview of 300 years of self-portraiture will launch the reopening of the RWA’s magnificent galleries following a £4.1 million transformation.  In particular it explores the last fifty years and the ways artists have imagined and presented themselves: from the highly personal and psychological to the controversial and political.

Me, Myself, I: Artists’ Self-Portraits includes over 80 artworks by major artists such as Grayson Perry, Tracey Emin, Sonia Boyce, Antony Gormley, Gillian Wearing, Harold Offeh, Shanti Panchal, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Angelica Kauffman, Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, Lucian Freud, Patrick Heron, Tony Bevan, Madame Yevonde and many more.

2 May - 19 June 2022 at the Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, UK

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