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About This Event
This event takes place in Assembly Room at Whitechapel Gallery, located on the ground floor.
This talk lasts approximately 1.5 hours. Attendees are encouraged to take as many breaks as they need during the event.
You must book a ticket to attend the event.
If the ticket price affects your attendance, please email tickets@whitechapelgallery.org to be added to the guest list (no questions asked, but dependent on availability).
This event is suitable for those over the age of 16
We are unable to provide British Sign Language interpretation for this event .
We are unable to provide live closed captioning or CART for this event.
An audio recording of the event can be obtained by emailing publicprogrammes@whitechapelgallery.org following the event.
Transport
To the best of our knowledge, there are no planned disruptions to local transport on the date of the event.
Our nearest train station – Aldgate East Underground (1 min) is not wheelchair accessible. The closest wheelchair accessible stations are Whitechapel (15 min), Shoreditch High Street (15 min) or Liverpool Street (15 min).
Free parking for Blue Badge holders is available at the top of Osborn Street in the pay and display booths for an unlimited period. Spaces are available on a first come, first served basis.
This event is now fully booked. Please contact infodesk@whitechapelgallery.org or call +44 (0)20 7522 7888 to be added to the waitlist.
Join artist Joy Gregory for an intimate conversation with Director of Whitechapel Gallery Gilane Tawadros, tracing the development of her artistic practice over time and speaking to her profound influence on the cultural landscape through the lens of her new exhibition, Catching Flies with Honey.
Spanning four decades, this landmark exhibition at Whitechapel Gallery brings together over 250 works encompassing photography, film, installation and textiles, all of which showcase and celebrate Gregory’s inventive, culturally resonant and materially rich practice.
Her work explores identity, history, race, gender and societal ideals of beauty, while expanding photography’s aesthetic and material possibilities. Gregory employs a diverse range of media and methods, encompassing Victorian photographic techniques such as cyanotypes and kallitypes, as well as digital media and performance. Conceptually rigorous and visually seductive, Gregory’s work invites important reflection on power structures, representation and cultural memory.
In this event, we will use the exhibition to interrogate Gregory’s status as pioneering force in contemporary photography, her enduring legacy and influence on a generation of artists and practitioners working with photography today, and situate her work within the broader landscape of British and international visual art.
This event accompanies our exhibition Joy Gregory: Catching Flies with Honey.
Attendees to this event can access an exclusive 20% discount on the accompanying book to the exhibition, Joy Gregory: Catching Flies with Honey – a new richly illustrated monograph surveying Gregory’s forty-year career, including essays by leading scholars who situate her practice as a vital contribution to global discourses on race, gender and the politics of seeing.
To redeem this discount, please select the “Admission + Book” option when purchasing your ticket – your monograph will be available to collect from the info desk on the night of the event.
Joy Gregory is a graduate of Manchester Polytechnic and the Royal College of Art. She has developed a practice which is concerned with social and political issues with particular reference to history and cultural differences in contemporary society.
As a photographer she makes full use of the media from video, digital and analogue photography to Victorian print processes. In 2002, Gregory received the NESTA Fellowship, which enabled her the time and the freedom to research for a major piece around language endangerment. The first of this series was the video piece Gomera, which premiered at the Sydney Biennale in May 2010.
She is the recipient of numerous awards and has exhibited all over the world showing in many festivals and biennales. Her work included in many collections including the UK Arts Council Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia, and Yale British Art Collection. She currently lives and works in London.
