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The idea of the artist’s studio is a source of enduring fascination for artists, curators, researchers and audiences, as the very locus from which art is made. At the same time, the studio is the subject of increasing market-led pressure, amounting to what many would consider a studio crisis, nationally and internationally. The recent circumstances of Covid 19 have yielded questions about the sustainability of the infrastructures in place to support artistic production cycles, research time, and a thriving art community. We ask what are the uses of the studio? What are the limits of the studio? And what might its possibilities be in the current climate.
In this online talk, join Dr Nathan O’Donnell who discusses a variety of artists’ studios, from the famous painter’s studio of Lucian Freud to the experimental studio approaches of contemporary artists. Key critical insights from the emergent field of ‘studio studies’ will be discussed, such as the critical contexts and conditions of the post-studio, and the cross disciplinary field of art practices that challenge the very notion of the studio, in the traditional sense.
This talk is part of an ongoing series exploring the subject of ‘The Studio’ as it relates to the wider programming at IMMA