Professor Sharon Morris is giving her Inaugural Lecture, “The first smile”: A Poetics of the Ephemeral and Durational, at the Wilkins Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, 2nd Floor, South Junction, Wilkins Building, UCL, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, on Tuesday 12 May 2015 at 6.30pm. Booking is on Eventbrite.

Commencing with Sharon Morris’s first audiovisual work, ‘Family Portrait’, About Time, ICA, 1981, and introducing her current photographic work, which responds to an album of salt-prints created by Mary Dillwyn in 1853, this lecture presents a selection of artworks and poems that raise a series of questions. Where have we come from? Who are we? And in seeking to locate where we are now, by implication, who are we becoming?

Professor Sharon Morris (UCL Slade School of Fine Art)

Sharon Morris is Professor of Fine Art and Head of the PhD programme at The Slade School of Fine Art, UCL. A visual artist and poet, her research is interdisciplinary, using translation between words and images to address themes of subjectivity and place. Her exhibitions include photography, video and sound, and she is the author of two collections of poetry, False Spring and Gospel Oak.