Artist Voices (In-Conversation) with Jocelyn McGregor, Matilda Moors and Anna Bogutskaya

Join writer, film programmer and podcaster Anna Bogutskaya and artists Jocelyn McGregor and Matilda Moors to discuss and unpack the ideas behind Jocelyn’s exhibition, No Notion of Loving by Halves currently on show at God’s House Tower.The conversation will focus on ‘genre’ in art practice, particularly the Gothic and horror, and how artists reference and respond to literature, film and TV.Artist Voices is a series of panel discussions and conversations that aim to support artist development by unpacking and demystifying key topics and issues of the visual arts ecology through discussion with artists and cultural workers.To encourage a discursive atmosphere, we invite the audience to ask questions and contribute to the conversation throughout the event. If you would like for the guest speakers to consider questions in advance of the night please send them to mia@aspacearts.org.uk.Jocelyn McGregor is a multi-disciplinary artist based in North West England. She holds a BFA in Fine Art from the Ruskin School of Fine Art and an MFA in Sculpture at the Slade School of Fine Art. Awards include a Henry Moore Foundation Grant (2023), Sculpture in the City: Aldgate Square Commission 2022-23, the British Council SWAP UK/Ukraine Residency 2019-20 and Bloomberg New Contemporaries in 2018 (touring South London Gallery & Liverpool Biennale). Exhibitions include ‘DREDGED’ (solo) in partnership with Lakeland Arts and Arts&Heritage, Windermere Jetty Museum, Cumbria (2023-24); ‘Lapsus Calami’ curated by Eddie Peake, Marlborough London (2023-24); ‘Mantle’ (solo), Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, UK (2022); ‘Trespassers Will be Detected?’, Dnipro Centre for Contemporary Culture, Ukraine (2020); and ‘A Fieldguide to Getting Lost’, T.A.F, Athens, Greece, 2018. Matilda Moors is an artist and academic working in sculpture, print, writing and installation. She deploys languages associated with youth culture to create pieces with a skewed-cartoonesque-cuteness. Her practice and research focus on the tension between cuteness and violence by drawing connections between the physical stresses and abnormalities of cartoon or monstrous bodies and ideas of abjection and difficulty associated with historical feminist and queer artwork. Previous shows include Witch Marks Transition Gallery, The Horror Show Somerset House, Serpent and Shadow The Royal Academy London, Auto Aim Geidai and The Amber Room Matt’s Gallery.Anna Bogutskaya is a writer, film programmer and podcaster. She writes for BBC Culture, The Guardian, MUBI, The New Statesman, TimeOut, amongst others, and has programmed for BFI, Edinburgh and Fantastic Fest. She is currently the Head of Screen at SXSW London. She hosts The Final Girls podcast, created and contributes to many others. She publishes the movie newsletter Admit One and has written two non-fiction books: Unlikeable Female Characters (2023) and Feeding the Monster (2024).Artist Voices will be hosted on Zoom. Details of how to join will be shared in the days leading up to the event via Eventbrite.