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- Price
- £5
- Audience type
- Ages 16+
- Running time
- 6pm - 7:30pm
- Venue
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- Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art
Event description
Artist Audrey Amiss documented her everyday life in a striking visual diary of hundreds of sketches, paintings, scrapbooks and diaries.
When she died, her family donated her archive to Wellcome Collection. In this talk, archivist Elena Carter provides fascinating insight into the process of cataloguing and caring for her collection to understanding the artist’s life.
Audrey Amiss: Kitchen Sink Realism is on display at Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art at Culture House, Sunderland. The exhibition will be open to view before the talk commences at 6pm.
Biography
Elena Carter is a Collections Development Lead at Wellcome Collection. Her work focuses on developing archive and art collections at Wellcome to build more inclusive understandings of health and human experience. Elena spent over a year cataloguing Audrey Amiss’ archive with other archivists at Wellcome, acted as Archive Consultant on Typist Artist Pirate King and undertook archival research for Audrey Amiss: The Surviving Exhibitions at Wellcome Collection.
- Produced and directed by Kate Wilkinson
- Assistant producer Effie Webb
- Filmed and edited by Benjamin Gilbert and Thomas S G Farnetti
- Assistant editor Eszter Anna Bonyi
- Music by Blue Dot Sessions
About the contributors
Kate Wilkinson – Producer
Kate works at Pushkin Press. When not submerged in a book, she can be found walking or practising Spanish. Sometimes both at once.
Benjamin Gilbert – Filmmaker
Ben is a senior photographer for Wellcome. He is happiest when telling stories with his photographs, whether that be the health implications of rural-to-urban migration in India, or the dedication of the workers who power the NHS.
Thomas S G Farnetti – Filmmaker
Thomas is a London-based photographer working for Wellcome. He thrives when collaborating on projects and visual stories. He hails from Italy via the North East of England.
