Visiting Artist’s Talk – Heather Peak

For this week's Visiting Artist's Talk, we welcome Heather Peak.

Heather Peak has established an ambitious collaborative practice, often with Ivan Morison, over the past twenty years that transcends the divisions between art, architecture, theatre and social practice.

Commissions include for Bruges Triennial 2024; Create, London, 2023; Yorkshire Sculpture Park, 2021; Wysing Arts Centre, 2020; City of Vancouver, 2019; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2015;  Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 2014; South London Gallery, London, 2014; Tate Modern, London, 2012-15; National Theatre of Wales, 2013; The Hepworth Wakefield, 2012; MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, 2012;  Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada, 2010; And So it Goes, representing Wales at the 52nd Venice Biennial, 2007.

Their book, Falling into Place, a fictionalized account of their large architectural shelter works, was published by Bookworks in 2009, and was made into an audio book by Palaver Press, New York in 2014. A new monograph of their work was published in 2022 by Art/Books titled The Very Public Art of Heather and Ivan Morison.

Her collaborative work has been reviewed in numerous art and architecture publications such as Frieze, Artmonthly, Architects Journal, Dezeen, World of Interiors, The Times, The Telegraph, Studio International, Crafts Council Magazine, Vogue UK, Vogue Australia, BBC Radio 4 Front Row, BBC2, Royal Academy magazine, The Guardian, The Financial Times and The Observer.

Heather trained as a printmaker at University of Brighton and is also the Artist/CEO/AD of DASH, a disabled led socially engaged led visual arts organisation that commissions and supports artists, arts workers and audiences.

About the Visiting Artists’ Talks series

The Visiting Artist’s Talk (VAT) series hosts talks by an exciting range of arts practitioners from around the world every Monday afternoon from 2 to 4pm during teaching weeks.

All of our talks are compulsory for our Fine Art students but are also open to anyone else who would like to join us. There’s no need to book – please just turn up!

For more information, please email Anna Douglas.

Find out more about the Visiting Artists Talks series and this year’s programme of speakers.

Directions to the venue

This week’s talk takes place in Electrical Engineering Keysight Technologies Lecture Theatre (1.52).

See the campus map for location of Electrical Engineering building.

From main entrance, go upstairs to the first floor, go straight ahead, through two sets of double doors. The Keysight Technologies Lecture Theatre is ahead.

Accessibility information can be found here.

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The Civic Dining Room, Rochdale Town Hall. Photo by Stephen King.