Biographical Essay by Chantal Condron. “...scholarly and unputdownable.” (Nicky Hodge)

The Peter Sowerby Collection is a new collection of artworks by artists with lived experience of mental health services being developed by Bethlem Gallery, London.

For this 2023 symposium at Bethlem Gallery, I presented a talk, ‘Living in a Material World, and I am a Material Girl’: Bunny 1997 by Sarah Lucas at the Bethlem Gallery, London.

“Chantal’s insightful writing about my practice has always been illuminating, even to me, as she has manifested stories behind my imagery, which otherwise remain a complete mystery to me.”

Chantal was an obvious choice to write about the work that I showed in ‘Hovering’ in 2023 for the Niso Project, London and in a group show ‘The Cultivation of Things’ in Notting Hill, where she also gave an absorbing talk. Her text with its sensitivity to the airy materiality of my new watercolour work captured its look and feel quite perfectly.

My review of the exhibition, Rhythm & Geometry: Constructivist Art in Britain since 1951

My online talk as part of Art UK and Bloomberg Contemporaries ‘Art Unlocked’ series - six of my favourite artworks at the Government Art Collection (2021).

An online panel discussion with Dr Anjalie Dalal-Clayton (UAL Decolonizing Arts Institute) and Eliza Gluckman (Director, Government Art Collection) - part of the Courtauld’s ‘Considering Collecting’ series, 2022.