Cultural Fear and Self Permission (CERI HAND)

Guest artist mentor CERI HAND joins artist and writer JILLIAN KNIPE to discuss her creative practice via 'The Blazing World' 2014 by Siri Hustvedt and published by Hodder & Stoughton. Longlisted for the Booker Prize and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, it tells tales of the life of artist Harriet Burden. Presented across snapshots of journal entries and testimonies by her family, friends and colleagues, the accounts are compiled and edited by academic researcher I.V. Hess after Harriet's death. Furious with the cultural misogyny that's left her all but ignored by the New York art world, Harriet hides her identity behind three male fronts in a series of exhibitions. While their huge success goes to prove her point, when she finally unmasks herself, not everyone believes her.   CERI HAND cerihand.com @cerihand artistmentor.co.uk ARTISTS Christo Vladimirov Javacheff 1935–2020 Eva Hesse 1936-1970 Evlyne Laurin, Creative Legacy Steward and Fine Art Appraiser Jane Hayes Greenwood Sir Horace Shango Ové CBE Yayoi Kusama Zak Ové WRITERS + BOOKS Cherry Smyth Dan Sullivan with Dr Benjamin Hardy '10X is Easier than 2X: How World-Class Entrepreneurs Achieve More by Doing Less' 2023 John Milton 'Paradise Lost' 1667 John Steinbeck 'Of Mice and Men' 1937 Margaret Lucas Cavendish 1623-1673 Rachel Cusk INSTITUTIONS + GALLERIES Castor Gallery ICA Somerset House 'Get Up Stand Up Now: Generations of Black Creative Pioneers' 2019 The Women's Art Library 'Make' magazine