Collection Conversations - Gordon Faulds & Alex Faulkner

Artists from the museum’s Modern and Contemporary Art collection will be talking about their work, providing insights into their inspiration and practice. This will be followed by an opportunity to ask questions with the audience encouraged to join in the conversation.

In our final Collection Conversation of the year, we will be joined by Gordon Faulds and Alex Faulkner.

Artist and poet Alex Faulkner studied at the Bath Academy of Art, Corsham. While a student at Corsham, Faulkner was taught by Ed Whittaker, Peter Kinley, and Adrian Heath, as well as assisting in the studios of Howard Hodgkin and Michael Kidner. Faulkner later worked in design before returning to painting and taking up printmaking.

Gordon Faulds studied visual communication at the Bath Academy of Art, Corsham, and believes his time there to have been hugely influential, expanding his cultural awareness and future thinking. He now works across multiple disciplines including drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, film and installation exploring cycles and forces before and beyond the present.

Left Image: The Seed Tower, 2007, Gordon Faulds, colour pencil on paper

Right Image: Lost in the Dark II, 2015, Alex Faulkner, oil on paper