Thursday 22 October 2009, 14.00–17.00

To coincide with the display of Mark Rothko’s Seagram Mural paintings at Tate Liverpool, this postgraduate research forum features presentations by four current postgraduate researchers who explore the themes of series, space and style in modern and contemporary painting.

The presentations and discussions will be chaired by Achim Borchardt-Hume, Chief Curator at the Whitechapel Gallery, London

For further information email antoinette.mckane@tate.org.uk

Tate Liverpool  The Auditorium
£4 (£2 concessions), booking recommended

Speakers include:

Patricia Farrell, Manchester Metropolitan University

The Unformed-Forming in Gerhard Richter’s ‘Abstract Paintings'

Lisa Frye-Ashe, University of Virginia

Pictures for Somewhere: Rothko, Pollock and Architecture

Catriona McAra, University of Glasgow

Awakening From Surrealism? Recurrent Narratives in the Later Paintings of Dorothea Tanning

Judith Walsh, University of Liverpool

Painting the Kitchen Sink

This event is related to the Mark Rothko: The Seagram Murals exhibition