These events have built a real following now, they have a unique way about them, a kind of music hall playful feel, as myself and colleagues go from painting to painting in the National Gallery on a Friday night. This time joined by my students Zara Auckbaraullee and Lily Ferret, and Stewart Lee, who was generous to do the event and throw himself into it. We had a big crowd, and everyone seemed to have fun. I read poems on Turner’s Ulysses deriding Polyphemus and Stubbs’ Whistlejacket, two well known works, and again felt very instinctually these events lead me to a specific kind of poetry - something more humorous, direct, satirical than most of my writing. I was grateful too to see so many friends old and new in the crowd, and the families of my students, making the evening feel personal and intimate amidst the crowds. A really memorable one, and documented brilliantly with Alexander Kell’s photographs and Alban Low’s art portraits below.