Art + Conflict
with Mark Gibbs, Lotte Geevan, Trevor Avery, and Caroline Neil
Friday 13th December (6-8pm)
How do we acknowledge and process the magnitude of war and conflict? Our opening Creative Thinkers talk invites artists and conflict specialists into an exploration of how we perceive war and how we can deal with it. With Cumbrian artist Mark Gibbs, Dutch artist Lotte Geevan, Holocaust Memorial Project founder Trevor Avery and conflict resolution expert Caroline Neil.
Trevor Avery
Trevor is an artist, curator, producer, and a Director of Lake District Holocaust Project, which has been in existence since 2005 and is based in Windermere.
He has been an advisor on a number of national television and radio programmes including the 2020 Prix Europa award-winning Warner Bros drama The Windermere Children, ITV's The Story of the Swastika and the 2010 BBC One documentary The Orphans Who Survived the Concentration Camps. In 2016 he was awarded the BEM for Services to Heritage in the Lake District.
Mark Gibbs
Mark is a multi award-winning professional mixed media fine artist based in Cumbria, who has exhibited internationally, in London, and in the North of England. He creates complex sculptures influenced by archaeology to resemble ancient ritual artefacts, featuring animals, horsemen, and vessels. A recent series of sculptures; the Horsemen and Memory Vessels, refer to the First World War and the dangers of Imperialism, and his Nightjar Project explores the poetics of camouflage, with each bird made feather by feather out of newspaper.
Caroline Neil
Caroline is the Founder and Managing Director of RPS Partnership; a global risk mitigation training and consulting company, specialising in the Fragile and Conflict Affected States (FCAS) of Africa, the Middle East and Latin America. She has provided training and consulting for a broad range of companies and NGOs, and successfully carried out projects in Brazil, Ethiopia, Finland, Lebanon, Pakistan, Indonesia, Egypt and Libya.
Her work varies from designing, conducting and leading teams of trainers on behalf of global projects – to being called in to assist in the safety of Daphne Caruana Galizia’s family when she was assassinated in 2017 in Malta.
https://www.rpspartnership.com
Lotte Geeven
Lotte is a multimedia artist from The Netherlands whose work has been shown in various galleries and museums in Amsterdam, New York, Berlin, Budapest, London, China, Indonesia and Canada, and more. She has been awarded the prestigious Illy Prize for most innovative artist. Her work focuses on the gaps between facts, and looks into how we relate to what we don’t know. How does the earth sound? Can we hear the past? In her body of work, the sea speaks, the earth growls, and the past echoes. Not just in a story; but for real. Making room for doubt it destabilises our worldview and makes space for a radical new thought to arise.
All talks are 6pm-8pm with the podcast recording starting at 6.15pm.
Supported by the Westmorland and Furness Council as part of the UKSPF and REPF.
Tickets are free but donations to the Studio are welcome.