International Women's Day Talk: Joan Eardley

This event is in-person at the Museum in the Headley Lecture Theatre and online via Zoom.

Tickets are £8 each. Booking is essential.

Joan Eardley is known as a fearless painter, whose unflinching depictions of working class people in the slums of Glasgow and the dramatic seascapes and landscapes of the east coast of Scotland are still unrivalled today.

In the 1950s and 60s, Glasgow suffered the privations of overcrowding; Catterline in Fife (where the artist lived for several years in the 50s) struggled to maintain its community through de-population. Eardley found her visual inspiration in the humanity of both. She was a pioneering artist and forerunner of names such as Peter Blake and the American artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat.