Thu 23 Apr 2026, 6.30 - 8pm
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| Wednesday | 11am–6pm |
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Access requirements
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About This Event
This event takes place in Assembly Room at Whitechapel Gallery, located on the ground floor.
This event 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.
Live Recording
Please note: this event will be filmed and audio recorded for the Whitechapel Gallery Archive and online publication.
Join artist Veronica Ryan in conversation with curator and creative director Lewis Dalton Gilbert, as she talks about her influences and the cultural experiences which have shaped her work and her current exhibition Multiple Conversations.
Encompassing more than 100 works, and spanning four decades, Multiple Conversations 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 lead foil, 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 and Gilbert will engage in extended conversations in and around the work in the exhibition and its broader concerns, from language, meaning, and intergenerational knowledge sharing, to geography, the natural world, and memory.
This event accompanies our current exhibition Veronica Ryan: Multiple Conversations .
Attendees to this event can access an exclusive 20% discount on the accompanying publication to the exhibition, Veronica Ryan: Multiple Conversations, featuring contributions from the exhibition curators as well as scholars including Jo Applin, Darby English, Catherine Spencer, Tamara Schenkenberg and Amy Tobin.
To redeem this discount, please select the “Admission + Book” option when purchasing your ticket. Your publication will be available to collect from the info desk on the night of the event.
Veronica Ryan (b.1956, Plymouth, Montserrat) studied at St. Albans College of Art and Design, Bath Academy of Art in Corsham Court, The Slade School of Art at University College, London, and The School of Oriental and African Studies at London University. Over her forty-year career, she has been the subject of numerous exhibitions and residencies within the U.K., the U.S., and abroad. Her first one-person exhibition was at Arnolfini, Bristol in 1987. Other important one-person shows have been presented at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge (1988), Camden Arts Centre, London (1995), Aldrich Museum, Connecticut (1996), Salena Gallery, Brooklyn (2005), Tate St Ives (2000, 2005 and 2017), The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh (2011), The Art House, Wakefield, (2017), Spike Island, Bristol (2021) and Pulitzer Arts Foundation, Missouri and Wexner Centre for the Arts, Ohio (2025-2026). Ryan’s exhibition Unruly Objects was presented at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St Louis and Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio (2025-26). Her work is in many private and public collections such as the Tate, the Brooklyn Museum, the Arts Council Collection, Contemporary Art Society, Sainsbury’s Collection, the Hepworth Wakefield, and the Weltkunst Collection at the Irish Museum of Modern Art. Ryan currently lives and works in New York and the U.K.
Lewis Dalton Gilbert is an independent curator and the creative director of A Vibe Called Tech, a creative studio and art and design consultancy that approaches creativity through an intersectional lens.
Following his BA in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art and Design, he coordinated and produced exhibitions and projects for White Cube and Frieze. He is currently associate curator at New Art Centre, where he previously served as creative director. In 2021, he curated the Hackney Windrush Art Commissions with Thomas J Price and Veronica Ryan OBE, for which Ryan won the Turner Prize.
Recent independent curatorial projects include Anya Paintsil: Allanol Always at Tŷ Pawb (2025); Matt Rugg: An Artist at Home at Matt Rugg’s Estate (2025); Unboxing the Collection: Exploring the Vessel at the Crafts Council, London (2024); Liaqat Rasul: NAU, NAU, DOH, CHAAR at Tŷ Pawb (2024); Francis Offman: Notes from the Heart at La Società delle Api (2024); South by Southwest at Gurr Johns (2024); Pictures of Us at Gathering, London (2023); We Share the Same Sky on Vortic Art (2023); Abstract Colour at Marlborough Gallery (2023); and Peripheral Vision at Anna Schwartz Gallery (2021).
