Thu 4 June, 6:30pm
Gallery 1
| Monday | Closed |
| Tuesday | 11am–6pm |
| Wednesday | 11am–6pm |
| Thursday | 11am–9pm |
| Friday | 11am–6pm |
| Saturday | 11am–6pm |
| Sunday | 11am–6pm |
The Whitechapel Gallery is committed to making all of our events as accessible as possible for every audience member. Please contact access@whitechapelgallery.org if you would like to discuss a particular request and we will gladly discuss with you the best way to accommodate it.
– Information about access on site at the gallery is available here https://www.whitechapelgallery.org/visit/access/
– This includes information about Lift access; Borrowing wheelchairs & seating; Assistance Animals; Parking; Toilets and baby care facilities; Blind & Partially Sighted Visitors; Subtitles and transcripts; British Sign Language (BSL) and hearing induction loops; Deaf Messaging Service (DMS).
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
Join the Whitechapel Gallery and Rubbena Aurangzeb-Tariq for a tour of our main exhibition Veronica Ryan: Multiple Conversations. The tour will be led in British Sign Language.
Veronica Ryan: Multiple Conversations, is one of the most extensive presentations to date of the acclaimed Freelands Award and Turner Prize winning artist, Veronica Ryan, OBE, RA (b. 1956, Plymouth, Montserrat).
Encompassing more than 100 works, and spanning four decades, the exhibition reflects the full spectrum of Ryan’s practice, showcasing her multifaceted work across sculpture, textiles and works on paper and illuminating a distinctive, highly evocative, visual language. Significantly, the exhibition features recently rediscovered works from the 1980s – large-scale sculptures made from plaster and beaten lead, as well as vivid drawings – which reveal an enduring deep interest in psychology, memory and personal stories, while also connecting to wider themes around the environment, history, trauma and recovery.
Ryan is known for her long-standing interest in the intricate structures and patterns of the natural world. In her work, seeds and pods hold significant but ambiguous meaning as protective vessels for new life, as well as enclosed containers associated with confinement or evolution. Ryan is also interested in exploring the invisible aspects of human experience; the unseen forces that shape the inner workings of the mind. Her work is conceptually and texturally rich as well as culturally and materially diverse. She employs a range of traditional materials such as plaster, bronze and marble in her work – drawing on skills and techniques gleaned in her academic training in the 1970s and ‘80s at London’s Slade School of Fine Art amongst other institutions – alongside crafts such as crochet and quilting – part of an intergenerational artistic legacy handed down from her mother.
