This lecture will focus on the progression and development of Professor Andrew Stahl’s painting and sculpture.

Andrew Stahl’s work is concerned with the symbolic, the formal, the descriptive and the expressive. He is interested in creating a complex and rich soup of different histories, discourses and traditions, contemplating the fragile, ecstatic, mystical nature and magic of the world around us. His paintings and sculptures often provide a simple structure from a distance yet as you move closer to them smaller images and details are revealed. These little items may not necessarily add up to a story, they can be mind wanderings, a collection of flowing thoughts floating across the surfaces, perhaps influenced by Chinese scrolls.

Lecturer: Professor Andrew Stahl, UCL Slade School of Fine Art

Inaugural lectures are an opportunity for recently-promoted professors to exhibit to the wider UCL community, and the public outside UCL, a flavour of their intellectual activity and research. Each lecture is followed by a drinks reception, to which all attendees are warmly invited.