On the occasion of our current show Marlow Moss / Vera Molnár : New Angles we will play host to a special talk at our new space on Bury Street with writer and art historian Lucy Haworth and curator Francesca Franco.
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Dr Lucy Howarth is an art historian, lecturer and curator; her interests are in contemporary art/design and twentieth century modernism. Her PhD (completed in 2009 at the University of Plymouth) was on the queer British Constructivist artist Marlow Moss, and the intersection of practice and legacy. Lucy has published significantly on Moss including, Marlow Moss by Lucy Haworth (Eiderdown Books, 2019) and A Forgotten Maverick, Marlow Moss (Hatje Cantz, 2017). Lucy has curated exhibitions at Tate, Hastings Contemporary, Leeds Art Gallery and Museum Haus Konstruktiv in Zürich. She currently teaches Contextual + Theoretical Studies at University for the Creative Arts, Canterbury, and continues her research on Moss.
Francesca Franco is an independent curator, art historian, and producer based in the UK and Italy. She has published extensively on the history of early computer art and its pioneers, including The Algorithmic Dimension (Springer, 2022) and Generative Systems Art (Routledge, 2018). Her forthcoming book on the history of computer art at the Venice Biennale will be published by Springer in 2025. Notable curatorial projects include Vera Molnár: Icône 2020 at the 2022 Venice Biennale, Algorithmic Signs (Venice, 2017), and Vera Molnár: Variazioni Icône (Rome, 2023). She has also commissioned new works, including Molnár's first glasswork made in Murano in 2021, later presented at the 2022 Venice Biennale, Ernest Edmonds’s Growth and Form (2017) and Roman Verostko's St Mark's Apocalypse (2017). Francesca will serve as the Chair of the SIGGRAPH 2025 Art Gallery.
