Talk | Artistic Friendship – Chantal Joffe and Ishbel Myerscough in conversation
6 - 7pm
£18 (£16.20 For Friends and other concessions)
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Buy Tickets >Join celebrated artists Chantal Joffe and Ishbel Myerscough, exhibiting in Seeing Each Other: Portraits of Artists, as they discuss their life-long friendship and the place it holds in their practice with the Gallery’s Chief Curator Melanie Vandenbrouck.
Chantal Joffe and Ishbel Myerscough met in 1988 while studying Fine Art at Glasgow School of Art and have since been close friends. In constant dialogue, their painting practice focuses on portraiture and the human figure, but each artist working with a distinctive style, Joffe in broad, insightful brushstrokes, Myerscough with a scrupulous attention to detail. Together, they have navigated life and the artworld, sharing many a milestone, from graduation and pregnancy to becoming successful artists. They’ve charted these shared experiences and profound friendship through their art, whether in humorous birthday card cartoons or in paintings of and with each other, and their families. In this candid conversation with the Gallery’s Chief Curator, Melanie Vandenbrouck, they discuss their friendship, portraiture, and being artists.
This talk is part of our new monthly series of Thursday Lates. Visitors are invited to enjoy our galleries and visit this season’s temporary exhibitions including Seeing Each Other: Portraits of Artists after hours and engage with other activities throughout the evening including a show and tell in the library, tour and drop in life drawing workshop.
Chantal Joffe and Ishbel Myerscough
Chantal Joffe studied at the Glasgow School of Art and the Royal College of Art. In 2006 she won the Royal Academy Charles Wollaston Award. Widely exhibited nationally and internationally, her work is held in institutional and private collections all over the world. In 2018, Joffe created a major public work for Whitechapel Elizabeth line station in London titled A Sunday Afternoon in Whitechapel.
Ishbel Myerscough creates detailed portrayals of youth, parenthood, desire and bereavement. She studied at the Glasgow School of Art and the Slade School of Art and won the National Portrait Gallery’s BP Portrait Award in 1995 and subsequently completed portrait commissions for their collection.
Both artists live and work in London. They had a joint exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, London, in 2015, and are both represented in Seeing Each Other: Portraits of Artists.
