Bronwen Sleigh is a multi-disciplinary artist who uses her work to explore the built environment, often taking inspiration from cities and spaces which are unfamiliar to her. Her work is a response to her physical experience of spaces formed by the architecture of a city. Sleigh considers structures at their point of concept and is interested in how plans and ideas of a particular era become constructed and are made permanent through architecture. For Sleigh, buildings offer an insight into attitudes and perspectives at the time of construction.

Talks at the Lane is delighted to welcome Bronwen to discuss some of her techniques and processes, focussing on her latest body of work which will be exhibited alongside the talk.

Form Follows is the accompanying exhibition and is a response to Sleigh’s visit to Kampala, Uganda, in 2015. Each work featured takes inspiration from a single five-story, concrete business centre, one of Kampala’s many imposing modernist buildings, erected during the country’s era of independence.

This talk is a delayed finale to our Season 1 session of Talks, which included Rural Office for Architecture, STUDIO NIRO, Clancy Moore, Assemble, wHY Landscape, IF_DO Architects, Sebastian Cox and Graux Baeyens Architects.

Please come and share a drink and some thoughts with us!

The TATL team

Useful links:

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Talks at the Lane

Bronwen Sleigh