This event is free but booking is required.
Doors open 6pm. Talk starts at 6:30pm
Join us for a very special artist talk with Madi Acharya-Baskerville, the winner of the 2023 First Plinth: Public Art Award.
Set up by the Royal Society of Sculptors, the First Plinth: Public Art Award offers sculptors an opportunity to extend their practice to create a public art commissions, with the support for fabrication of the chosen proposal. In response to the 2023 theme ‘Parade’, Acharya-Baskerville’s The Double Act was selected as first place. After exhibiting outside Royal Society of Sculptors’s headquarters at Dora House, London, the sculpture of two figures dancing together in joyous harmony now resides outside the entrance to The Art House building.
Acharya-Baskerville, a London-based, South Asian artist, explores themes of environmental concerns, migrations and gender issues. Using found and discarded materials sourced from coastlines, woodlands and vintage markets, her sculptures provoke ecological activism with a helping of irony, humour and playfulness.
Join us on 21 November to hear Acharya Baskerville in conversation with Sarah Brown, Director of the Lightbox Gallery.
Doors open 6pm for welcome drinks, in conversation begins 6:30. Booking is required for this event. Please reserve your place here.
With special thanks to the Royal Society of Sculptors, an artist-led, membership organisation that champions contemporary sculpture and the artists who create it.
Find out more about Madi Acharya-Baskerville’s practice here or begin planning your visit to see The Double Act.
