Valentine Mash-up
Thursday 14 February, 18.00–21.00
If you can’t face the romance, roses and rows of your average Valentine’s night then join us for something a little bit different. There will be talks, tours, live performances and special offers from the Blackwell bookshop and Peyton and Byrne café.
18.30–19.00 Join Curator Kate Forde for her personal tour of the 'Sleeping & Dreaming' exhibition.
18.30–21.00 Drop in on Gethan Dick's games of 'Love-Sick' in the 'Medicine Now' gallery.
19.00–20.00 Ilse Crawford, designer of the Wellcome Collection Club Room, talks about the culture of the bedroom from boudoirs to bachelor pads.
This event is Free.
Participants
Ilse Crawford, designer and Creative Director of Studioilse
Studioilse created the design identity for brands through everything that is smelt, heard and felt: design strategy, interior, furniture and product design, marketing and PR. They created the Wellcome Collection Club Room.
Crawford is Head of Department (Man and Wellbeing) at the Design Academy Eindhoven and author of two books. Projects include the award-winning restaurants for Grand Hotel Stockholm and Soho House New York.
Crawford has worked across product development and regeneration as Vice-President of Donna Karan Home, and as Launch Creative Director of the Swarovski Crystal Palace project, she brought together visionary designers to reinvent the chandelier, showing in Paris, Milan and New York.
Gethan Dick is an education artist.
The following questions are important to her practice: If you are an education artist then where is the actual artwork located? Is it possible to help somebody have a good idea? How do you build a world within a world? What’s the best way to make somebody think about the way they think? Will you play along?
Kate Forde, Assistant Curator, Wellcome Collection
Before joining Wellcome Collection, Kate worked for a number of public art institutions including the Tate, the V&A and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. She assisted with the curation of 'Sleeping & Dreaming'.
