The final event in our public programme for The Baroness.

We will start the evening with a panel discussion around the work and life of the legendary Dada artist and poet Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, exploring Dada poetry, found objects and ready mades, the authorship of Marcel Duchamp's Fountain (1917), and Baroness’ the radical feminist poetry and her influence on contemporary artists.

The panel will include artists in the show, Sadie Murdoch and Taqralik Partridge (joining us specially from Canada), and academic Dawn Ades, moderated by Mimosa House’s Director Daria Khan.

The panel will be followed by cocktails.
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Sadie Murdoch studied at Chelsea College of Art and Design and Leeds Metropolitan University. She was a student on the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Programme, New York from 2003-2004, and an Abbey Rome Scholar at the British School at Rome in 2002. Sadie’s solo exhibition in 2016, SSS-MM, at the Museum Haus Konstruktiv in Zürich, was accompanied by her artist book Omnipulsepunslide, published by Artphilein Editions. She has staged other one-person exhibitions at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds (2007), the Agency, London (2008 and 2011), and the Henry Peacock Gallery and Domobaal, London (2002). Her performance at Belmacz with Abbas Zahedi and Toby Upton, A Case of Med(dling)tation, was included in Performance Exchange, in 2021. Sadie is currently lecturer, MFA Fine Art at Goldsmiths College and lives and works in London.

Taqralik Partridge is an artist, writer, spoken word poet and curator originally from Kuujjuaq, Nunavut. She is the Director of the Nordic Lab at Galerie SAW Gallery in Ottawa. Taqralik’s visual art has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including at Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery (Montreal) and the Biennale of Sydney. She co-curated Tunirrusiangit (2018) at the Art Gallery of Ontario and Qautamaat | Every day / everyday at the Art Gallery of Guelph (2020). Her performance work has been featured on CBC Radio One and she has toured with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra under Kent Nagano and with Les Productions Troublemakers. Taqralik’s writing focuses on both life in the North and in southern urban centres, as well as the experiences of Inuit people. A collection of her poetry, curved against the hull of a peterhead, was published in 2020.

Dawn Ades is a Fellow of the British Academy, a former trustee of Tate, Professor of the History of Art at the Royal Academy and was awarded a CBE in 2013 for her services to art history. She has been responsible for some of the most important exhibitions in London and overseas over the past thirty years, including Dada and Surrealism Reviewed, Art in Latin America and Francis Bacon. Most recently she organised the highly successful exhibition to celebrate the centenary of Salvador Dalí at the Palazzo Grassi in Venice (2004) The Colour of my Dreams: The Surrealist Revolution in Art, at the Vancouver Art Gallery (2011), and was Associate Curator for Manifesta 9 (2012) . She has published standard works on photomontage, Dada, Surrealism, women artists and Mexican muralists. Dawn is now partially retired but continues to supervise PhD students.

With thanks to the generous support of Crozier Fine Arts