ARTIST NETWORK SOCIAL & TALK WITH JO LATHWOOD
Tuesday 30 January 2024
6pm-7.30pm
Galleries
The Lowry’s Artist Development team are so excited to be hosting the next social for artists, theatre makers, creatives, practitioners, visual, media, digital artists and producers with commissioned visual artist Jo Lathwood.
Please join us for an informal exploration of Jo Lathwood’s exhibition MAKING UP. This opportunity is for creative practitioners to learn more about Lathwood’s practice and the exhibition currently on show at The Lowry. The evening will consist of a gallery tour, a short artist talk and an informal Q and A session with the artist and curator Zoe Watson.
The Artist Network Social is also a great opportunity to meet new artists or talk through ideas with a potential new collaborator, while chatting over drinks and meandering in the Galleries.
About Jo Lathwood
Jo Lathwood makes sculptures and large scale installations which regularly respond to a particular site, event, material or process. Working with recycled timber she has built a meandering staircase that travelled across three storeys to facilitate the audience to touch the roof of a church. Experimenting with foundry technologies, she developed a way of casting lava into contemporary forms and through researching traditional techniques, she has made and shared how to make inks from Oak Galls. These ideas have grown from a focus around making and an examination of our impact and relationship with the natural and built environment. Themes such as transitions, viewpoints, illusions, aspiration, environmentalism and anti-capitalism are woven through her practice.
MAKING UP is a process driven exhibition where Lathwood will be building a sculptural installation in front of the public. Housed in the Lowry basement workshop which will be linked to the gallery by video, over the course of the first weeks, Lathwood and a small team of technicians will construct a pathway leading to a rotating platform. This functional deadend will then be open to the public to walk on. Towards the end of the exhibition the structure will transform again into wooden boxes that will be given away to the public.
