Meet the Artist: Lubna Chowdhary in Conversation with Dr Emilia Terracciano

Hear artist Lubna Chowdhary discuss her work, inspiration and life as an artist, in conversation with Dr Emilia Terracciano.  

The event will take place within PLURIVERSE, Chowdhary’s current exhibition at the Graves Gallery. This will be a special opportunity for Chowdhary to respond directly to the works around her and share an insight into the exhibition, with plenty of time for audience questions.    

Lubna Chowdhary has been shortlisted for the Jerwood Prize in Ceramics, the Annual Freelands Foundation Award, the Juda Foundation Award and the Paul Hamlyn Award.  

She has exhibited widely, including solo exhibitions at Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, UK, PEER Gallery, London, UK and group exhibitions at Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE, and Hayward Gallery, London, UK. Her work has been included in the Kochi Biennale, India and the Islamic Art Biennale, Jeddah. In addition to her residency at the V&A, she has completed further artists residencies at Camden Arts Centre, IASPIS Stockholm and Mahler & Lewitt, Italy. She is represented by Jhaveri Contemporary. 

Dr Emilia Terracciano is a writer, translator, and lecturer in the history of modern art at the University of Manchester. She studied Philosophy and History of Art at University College London and completed her MA and PhD at The Courtauld Institute of Art. She was the recipient of the Nehru Trust Award, and the AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award scholarship at the Victoria and Albert Museum. She previously held a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford. Emilia regularly collaborates with contemporary artists internationally and writes for the art press. Her books include Art and Emergency: Modernism in Twentieth-Century India.  

This talk is part of the programme of events complementing the exhibition Lubna Chowdhary: PLURIVERSE, at the Graves Gallery until Saturday 21 December 2024.