Artist Ellen Harvey will be in conversation with Artist Aideen Barry and Butler Gallery Director, Anna O’Sullivan, on Wednesday 19 April from 1pm - 2pm. The conversation will encompass Harvey's practice and the work on show, in the exhibition The Disappointed Tourist.

Ellen Harvey is a British-American conceptual artist. She lives and works in New York. She is a graduate of the Whitney Independent Study Program, Yale Law School and Harvard College. She attended the Berlin Hochschule der Kunste in Germany. She has won numerous awards, including the Smithsonian Artists Research Fellowship, George A. & Eliza Gardener Howard Foundation Fellowship, the Wivina Demeester Prize for Commissioned Public Art, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship.

Harvey has exhibited widely including the 2008 Whitney Biennial, Margate's Turner Contemporary; Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia; Groeninge Museum, Bruges, Belgium; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; Bass Museum, Miami; Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw; Pennsylvania Academy, Philadelphia; Whitney Museum at Altria, New York. The Disappointed Tourist has travelled to the U.K., USA, Austria and Poland.

https://www.ellenharvey.info/

Aideen Barry is a practising Visual Artist based in Ireland but with international representation. In 2020 she was elected to the Royal Hibernian Academy as an ARHA member. She is a member of Aosdána and lectures in several universities and schools of visual art in Ireland, the US and Europe.

https://www.aideenbarry.com/

This is a free, ticketed event.