Visiting artist talk with Jasleen Kaur

You are invited to a visiting artist talk with Jasleen Kaur, winner of the Turner Prize 2024. The talk will reflect on recent work and ongoing research on the theme of ‘geography’.

“I've been thinking a lot about geography recently, orientation and geography being about seeing and looking in particular ways.

“I'm often making work about how histories are manufactured and how intimate life is marred by these wider forces.

“I wanted to map a constellation of places for you, that sit within varying degrees of intimacies to me, to think about how histories and narratives are managed and manufactured, socialised and maintained.”

The talk is organised as part of the 'What Next' series of events for students in the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies.

About the speaker

Jasleen Kaur’s work explores cultural memory and political belonging. She makes with the slurry of life, interested in the social histories contained within the material things that surround us. In her practice, mass-produced, everyday objects are coded with symbols and images, questioning how the narratives we inherit circulate in discreet ways and, in turn, shape us.

Jasleen Kaur (b.1986 Pollokshields, Glasgow) lives and works in London, UK. She is the winner of the 2024 Turner Prize and in 2025, was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by The Glasgow School of Art.

Solo exhibitions include Boomerang, Hollybush Gardens, London; Was. Is. Will be., a permanent artwork for Thamesmead, London (2025); Alter Altar, Tramway, Glasgow (2023); Flesh ‘n’ Blood, Humber Street Gallery, Hull; Gut Feelings Meri Jaan, Touchstones Rochdale (2021) and Be Like Teflon, Glasgow Women’s Library (2019). In 2019 her book Be Like Teflon was co-published by Glasgow Women’s Library and Dent-De-Leone.

Selected group exhibitions include The Three Legged Cat, 18th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul; PUSH THE LIMITS 2, Merz Foundation, Turin; Maybe we could both belong, Den Frie, Copenhagen; Lives Less Ordinary, Two Temple Place, London (2025); Imagining Otherwise, Primary, Nottingham; CLASSifications, Aspex, Portsmouth (2024); Not new, otherwise, Build Hollywood, Glasgow; A Tall Order!, Touchstones, Rochdale (2023); My Body is a Temple of Gloom, Wellcome Collection, London (2021).

Book your place

This talk will take place on MS Teams and all are welcome to join us.

Book your place to attend the talk.

For more information, please email Elspeth Mitchell at e.r.mitchell@leeds.ac.uk.

Image

Jasleen Kaur, Keystone II. Photography by Eva Herzog.