Join us during London Gallery Weekend for Joanne Leonard in conversation with Griselda Pollock and Fiona Rogers. The conversation will discuss Leonard's artistic evolution and her innovative approach to visual storytelling, and the work in the forthcoming exhibition, Vintage Photographs and Early Collages.
Following the talk, there will be an opportunity to visit the V&A Print Room for a special viewing of the newly acquired work by Joanne Leonard, Journal of a Miscarriage.
Joanne Leonard
Joanne Leonard is an American artist renowned for her transformative and expansive conceptual photographic practice. This later developed into new forms of photo-collage to explore the overlooked spaces, conditions and moments within women’s working and parenting lives. Leonard’s work was hailed by American feminist critic Lucy Lippard in her collection From the Center (1976). Leonard is also widely studied for intermedial work, text and images in Being in Pictures: An Intimate Photo Memoir(2008).
Griselda Pollock
Griselda Pollock is a feminist, postcolonial, and social art historian and curator, and Professor Emerita at the University of Leeds. She has received major honours including the Holberg Prize (2020) and the CAA Lifetime Achievement Award (2023). She has curated exhibitions at venues including the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh (1980), the 14th Istanbul Biennial (2015) and Medium and Memory (2023) for HackelBury. Her writing focuses on modern and contemporary art, trauma, and cultural memory.
Fiona Rogers
Fiona Rogers is the inaugural Parasol Foundation Curator of Women in Photography at the V&A. Fiona has curated exhibitions with artists such as Theo Simpson, Marvel Harris, and Zora J Murff, and has written for publications like Photoworks and the British Journal of Photography. A supporter of emerging talent, she has served on juries and at festivals internationally. She is a member of the RPS Awards Committee and a trustee of both the Martin Parr and Peter Marlow Foundations.
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