Visiting Artist’s Talk – David Steans
- Date: Monday 19 February 2024, 14:00 – 16:00
- Location: Chemistry LT B (2.17)
- Cost: Free
For this week's Visiting Artist's Talk we welcome David Steans, an artist whose practice stretches from writing to installation making.
David Steans is an artist based in Leeds. He works across writing, moving image, sound, installation and 2D media such as collage. Recent projects include Mummy Hood Nesting Forest (2022), commissioned by Primary, Nottingham; and Puppy the Goblin (2020), screened at Tate Britain in 2022.
In 2021 he was commissioned to write a new text, ‘Curtainz’, for Documents of Contemporary Art: Magic (Whitechapel Gallery/MIT Press). In 2018, Deptford X Contemporary Art Festival published his book of experimental horror stories, From the Lounge.
He was part of the co-founding year of School of the Damned (2014—present), an alternative postgraduate programme, and currently teaches Fine Art at Leeds Arts University.
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.
For more information, please email Nick Thurston.
Please note this is a change to the advertised programme, as Chila Kumari Burman can’t join us this week.
Directions to Chemistry Lecture Theatre B
See the campus map for location of the Chemistry building.
Go through the Chemistry main entrance, turn right, follow the corridor round to the left, go through the double doors and the lift and stairs are both immediately on your right.
Either go up 1.5 flights of stairs to an upper landing and Chemistry Lecture Theatre B is at the end of the landing on your right or take the lift to the 2nd floor, turn left upon exiting and Chemistry Lecture Theatre B is at the end of the landing on your right.
Image
David Steans, Mummy Hood Nesting Forest (2022) [screenshot]. Website, text, sound, graphics, animation. Image courtesy of the artist.