Café des Artistes 9
Christopher Griffin, Dr Lena Fritsch and Andrew Hardman hosted a discussion on Agnes Martin on 27 January 2015 at Talbot Rice Gallery.
Christopher Griffin is Collection Research Manager at Tate, where he is responsible for commissioning and editing scholarly texts on individual artworks in Tate’s collection - including ARTIST ROOMS - and is the Managing Editor of Tate Papers, Tate’s pioneering online research journal.
Christopher’s research has focused principally on the intersection of art and politics and twentieth-century abstract art - including and especially the work of Agnes Martin - and the history of art criticism in Britain.
Dr Lena Fritsch is Assistant Curator, Collections International Art at Tate Modern, working on acquisitions of international art with a special focus on the Asian-Pacific region. She also works on exhibitions, currently assisting on Agnes Martin (2015). She has published widely on photography, including a monograph on the human body as a motif in Japanese photographs of the 1990s, The Body as a Screen: Japanese Art Photography of the 1990s (2011).
Andrew Hardman is a researcher in visual culture and art history. His research interests include histories of mid-twentieth century painting, performance art and theory. He is currently working on a book, Studio Habits, which considers the preservation and display of the remains of artistic practice and studio spaces. Andrew is a founder member of Belle Vue, a research group who specialise in making films for the arts and heritage sectors.