The first of a series of performances I'll be giving at National Gallery in 2024, following three events in 2023. A mix of ekphrastic poetry and art-lectures in miniature, this succinct gallery tour and collaboration with National Gallery guides also includes students from Kingston University. Please join us, free, on Friday January 19th at 7pm.

https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/friday-lates-tour-and-poetry-readings-sj-fowler-19-01-2024

"For centuries, the artforms of painting and poetry have been in dialogue, each informing the other, or attempting to translate what makes them unique as their own media into another. Following a series of Friday Lates events last year, poet and performer SJ Fowler returns to the gallery to read new ekphrastic poems written about chosen paintings in our collection, offering alternative interpretations of their meaning, history and standing. Fowler is joined by Gallery Educator Fiona Alderton alongside invited guests from Writers’ Kingston, students and staff from Kingston University, as well as further afield, for a tour and poetry performances around the Gallery. Performers include Danica Ignacio, Monica Nathalal and David Spittle."

www.stevenjfowler.com/nationalgallery