Name: In Conversation: Lucía Pizzani and Helen Gordon
Start: 2026-05-09T15:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-05-09T17:00:00+01:00
Location: Focal Point Gallery

$In Conversation: Luc\u00eda Pizzani and Helen Gordon$

Lucía Pizzani and Helen Gordon dive into geological and coastal history, and the artistic conceptualisation of 'Faunal Succession'.
About this Event

Join us at the gallery on Saturday 9 May at 3pm for this special in-conversation between artist Lucía Pizzani and Helen Gordon, author of Notes from Deep Time. This will be a great opportunity to gain insight into Pizzani’s artistic practice and her inspiration for her current exhibition, Faunal Succession.

Faunal Succession is Pizzani’s first institutional UK exhibition. Through a series of new installations, Pizzani reimagines the Essex coast through a ‘deep time’ lens, linking geological transformation with contemporary questions of climate change, migration, and social transformation.
Saturday 9 May, 3pm - 5pm at Focal Point Gallery

About Lucía Pizzani:
Pizzani is a Venuzeulan born artist, currently based in London. She holds a BA in Communications Studies, (Universidad Católica Andres Bello, Caracas), Certificate in Conservation Biology from CERC at Columbia University (New York) and Master in Fine Arts from the Chelsea College of Art and Design (London)

About Helen Gordon:
Gordon’s books include The Meteorites (forthcoming from Profile), Notes from Deep Time (Profile), Landfall (Penguin) and, with Travis Elborough, Being a Writer (Frances Lincoln). She has written about nature, science, art and books for various newspapers and magazines including the Economist’s 1843 magazine, the Guardian, Apollo and Wired UK. A former Granta magazine editor, she currently teaches creative writing at the University of Hertfordshire. She lives at the edge of the North Downs with her husband and daughters.