The School of Art Monday Lectures is a public series of talks by leading national and international artists and thinkers. The School of Art’s practice-led research embodies and critically reflects upon new registers of contemporary art, whilst rearticulating processes and practices associated with established artistic media.
2025/26
Listings
20 October | Jennifer Walshe, 13 Ways of Looking at AI, Art & Music
10 November | Lubaina Himid
12 January | Monster Chetwynd | Watch here >
23 February | Rae-Yen Song 宋瑞渊 | Watch here >
9 March | John Smith
2024/25
Listings
30 September | Peter Liversidge
21 October | Renzo Martens
11 November | Linsey Young Curator, Women in Revolt | Watch here >
20 January | Ashanti Harris This event has been cancelled
10 February | Anne Hardy
10 March | Linder
2023/24
Listings
2 October 2023 | Emily Speed | Watch here >
23 October 2023 | Winnie Herbstein
6 November 2023 | Alberta Whittle | Watch here >
22 January 2024 | Katie Paterson and Anne Beate Hovind
12 February 2024 | Lindsey Mendick
2022/23
Listings
7 Oct 2022 | Jamie Crewe | Watch here>
28 Oct 2022 | Mark Leckey | Watch here>
18 Nov 2022 | Larry Achiampong | Watch here>
27 Jan 2023 | Emma Hart | Watch here >
17 Feb 2023 | Ruth Ewan | Watch here >
10 Mar 2023 | Amalia Pica | Watch here >
2021/22
Arts and educational institutions in the UK are places that hold deep colonial affiliations and legacies today, within their ecosystems.
This collaboration with the New Art Exchange and the School of Art at the University of Edinburgh is one way to introduce voices that are systemically underrepresented and discarded within the arts and culture sector.
It is an approach to introduce other references to the curriculum when thinking about arts education in the UK today to broaden up horizons beyond colonial imaginaries and hegemonic knowledge of the art school.
Cindy Sissokho, Curator & Special Projects Producer
The School of Art is delighted to be continuing our collaboration with New Art Exchange in Nottingham, for the 2021 - 2022 academic year. This co-curation of invited speakers between the two organisations has led to many fruitful discussions about how we bring diverse artists into the academic community. Our talks have included how to expand pedagogical knowledge, how we support both emerging and established artists, thinkers, curators, directors, writers, to bring their practice to a wider audience, and to students beginning their journey of artistic discovery. This year we will present creative practitioners from an incredibly expansive field, those who work with language and performance, to political and artistic aspects of decoloniality within the arts, and theories of Black Subjectivity, Afro-pessimism and Afro-futurism.
Linda O Keeffe Head of Art
Listings
8 Oct 2021 | Beverley Bennett
22 Oct 2021 | Dominique White
5 Nov 2021 | Soukaina Aboulaoula and Lorén Elhili
21 Jan 2022 | Phoebe Colings-James
18 Feb 2022 | Fabian Villegas
4 Mar 2022 | Cindy Sissokho