Susan MacWilliam in Conversation with Jacqui McIntosh

On Saturday, 21 February at 3pm, artist Susan MacWilliam will join us to mark the closing of her solo exhibition Table Turning. MacWilliam will be in conversation with Jacqui McIntosh, curator at the College of Psychic Studies, where MacWilliam’s work can also presently be seen as part of The Medium is the Message.

MacWilliam and McIntosh will discuss Table Turning and its engagement with psychical study and women’s liberation in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It will run for approximately ninety minutes.

Susan MacWilliam works between Belfast and Dublin, where she is a lecturer in Fine Art at the National College of Art and Design. In 2009, MacWilliam represented Northern Ireland at the 53rd Venice Biennale. She is represented by CONNERSMITH.

Jacqui McIntosh is an independent researcher, writer and curator based in London. As Curator and Archivist at the College of Psychic Studies in London, she cares for and curates their extensive collection of spirit-inspired art, photography and artefacts from 1850 to today.

About Table Turning:

Since 1997, Susan MacWilliam has had an ongoing fascination with how humans have sought to document and quantify the spirit realm. This exhibition explores the study of psychic phenomena with new work made through meticulous, manual processes: the cutting, stitching, sculpting, and moulding of paper, felt, and clay. For MacWilliam, “the realisation of ideas and objects in the studio” is akin to “the manifestations and materialisations of the séance room”.