Mark Wallinger in Conversation with Sacha Craddock

Join us for this special evening event featuring a screening of Angel (1997), Threshold to the Kingdom (2000) and The End (2006) followed by a discussion between Mark Wallinger and Sacha Craddock with an opportunity for questions.

In this lively and thought-provoking conversation, Turner Prize–winning artist Mark Wallinger will join esteemed art critic and curator Sacha Craddock to explore the ideas, motivations, and social questions that have shaped his remarkable career. They will elaborate on the making of the films and his approach to his practice, offering a rare insight into his process, influences and ongoing preoccupations.

Mark Wallinger is one of the UK’s leading contemporary artists, who has created some of the most significant artworks of the last 40 years. His work – ranging across sculpture, video, painting, and public installation – challenges power, identity, and the rituals that shape society. One of his most notable works, Ecce Homo was the first to sit on the vacant Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square. He represented Britain at the Venice Biennale in 2001, and won the Turner Prize in 2007 with his installation State Britain. In 2018, he unveiled Writ in Water at Runnymede for the National Trust, celebrating where the Magna Carta was sealed, and in 2019 he created The World Turned Upside Down at the London School of Economics. Wallinger is an artist who uses deeply familiar symbols — religion, protest, transport, sport — and turns them into mirrors for our collective values, contradictions, and hopes.

Sacha Craddock is a distinguished British art critic, writer and curator. She has been a regular art columnist for The Times and The Guardian, served as chair of Bloomberg New Contemporaries from 1996 to 2021, and has judged many art prizes, including the Turner Prize and the John Moores Painting Prize. With integrity, curiosity and a commitment to nurturing new artists, Sacha Craddock continues to shape the field of contemporary art—through writing, curating and advocacy. Sacha is currently in the process of curating four major exhibitions as Guest Curator at Plataforma, Guadalajara, Mexico.

Film running times:

Angel, 1997 – 7mins 30secs

Threshold to the Kingdom, 2000 – 11 mins 20 secs

The End, 2006 –12 mins

This talk forms part of the programme of events complementing the exhibition New Horizons: Growing Sheffield’s Art Collection, which continues at the Millennium Gallery until Sunday 25 January.

Image credit: Still from Threshold to the Kingdom © Mark Wallinger