Artist Talk: Claire Kerr in conversation with Hisham Matar

Join us at Purdy Hicks Gallery to meet the artist Claire Kerr at a preview of ‘What Else Do I Believe in?’ (Patti Smith, M Train).  Claire explains, “In some sense,  making a painting or a poem is the process of imposing the imagination on the world – in Wallace Stevens’s words, ‘the imagination pressing back against the pressure of reality’.  These paintings are explorations of things, situations and stories in which real, imagined and wished-for significance are on equal terms.  They celebrate the way the fanciful and the far-fetched can have a resonance.”