Chance Encounters: Archival Fabulations and Feminist Art History, 10 October 2025
This hands-on session takes the archive as a starting point for how artists, curators and writers can learn from, and speculate beyond history. Drawing on examples from personal archives and intimate experiences that are hard to contain within art’s histories, as well as fabricated narratives within feminist and institutional collections, this workshop provides an opportunity to explore material from the Women’s Art Library alongside participants personal stories.
Participants will be encouraged to experiment with writing feminist art histories that centre desire, gossip, speculation and an embodied relationship to the past. This work of archival fabulation will build on the installation Slightly Bitter, part of our exhibition Lubaina Himid with Magda Stawarska: Another Chance Encounter, which combines actual and fictional correspondence to imagine the relationship between the modernist artists Sophie Gaudier-Brzeska and Nina Hamnett beyond the historical record.
There will also be an opportunity to view the exhibition.
Please note: participants will need to bring a notepad and pen.
This event would be best suited to graduate students, researchers, curators, artists, and archivists.
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This hands-on session takes the archive as a starting point for how artists, curators and writers can learn from, and speculate beyond history. Drawing on examples from personal archives and intimate experiences that are hard to contain within art’s histories, as well as fabricated narratives within feminist and institutional collections, this workshop provides an opportunity to explore material from the Women’s Art Library alongside participants personal stories.
Participants will be encouraged to experiment with writing feminist art histories that centre desire, gossip, speculation and an embodied relationship to the past. This work of archival fabulation will build on the installation Slightly Bitter, part of our exhibition Lubaina Himid with Magda Stawarska: Another Chance Encounter, which combines actual and fictional correspondence to imagine the relationship between the modernist artists Sophie Gaudier-Brzeska and Nina Hamnett beyond the historical record.
There will also be an opportunity to view the exhibition.
Please note: participants will need to bring a notepad and pen.
This event would be best suited to graduate students, researchers, curators, artists, and archivists.
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