Tag Archives: activism

Walker & Bromwich

27 March 2025

Glasgow-based duo Walker & Bromwich work with communities or organisations to explore matters surrounding local and global issues. What’s exciting is that they create a collective journey within communities in a festival-like environment to tackle concerns. From unique giant inflatables with titles like Serpent of Capitalism, to totems that manifest positive and negative forces, their work can encapsulate humour, be sombre but always evoke hope.

We have the opportunity to explore the exhibition with Talbot Rice’s Curator James Clegg. The work of Walker & Bromwich will take us on a journey from the working-class communities of Wales to environmental scholars and Indigenous representatives for the Colombian Amazon with a stop off with anarchists in Denmark.

Women in Revolt! Art and Activism in the UK 1970-1990

25 July 2024

This month we will be joined by Chief Curator Lucy Askew as we make our way to Modern Two for Women in Revolt! Art and Activism in the UK 1970-1990. 

This touring exhibition is a timely exploration of the work and lived experiences of a post-war generation of women artists that have largely been omitted from art historical narratives. Surfacing the wealth and diversity of work created in the UK during the 1970s and 80s, a period of seismic social and political change, it demonstrates, across a wide variety of mediums including painting, drawing, sculpture, performance, film and photography, how women’s needs were marginalised within mainstream culture and reveals how these artists used radical ideas and methods to confront issues that will resonate with contemporary audiences – from access to healthcare and class struggles to ecological disaster, racism, and misogyny.