Lunchtime Talk: Penny McCarthy – How to Look Through Time

Thu Nov 20 2025 at 01:00 pm to 01:45 pm UTC+00:00

Graves Gallery | Sheffield

Museums Sheffield
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Lunchtime Talk: Penny McCarthy \u2013 How to Look Through Time
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Join artist Penny McCarthy for this special opportunity to find out about her work, process, and inspiration.
About this Event

Through her thoughtful, often delicate works, McCarthy invites the viewer to consider how time affects the way we view and understand art. For How to Look Through Time, she presents a new series of work that uses a 16th century Titian print to examine the role historic artwork can have in our lives today.

This talk is a repeat of the event that was held on 6 November due to popular demand.

Penny McCarthy is an artist and academic with a particular interest in the materiality and experience of drawing. Central to her work is an interest in understanding phenomena through detail, exacting slowness and concentrated observation.

Her research is presented internationally in a variety of contexts: in exhibitions, conferences, and as live projects and publications. She has earned awards from the Evelyn Williams Drawing Prize, Henry Moore Foundation, Wellcome Trust, Arts Council England and AHRC. Recent projects include Liquid Crystal Display (Site Gallery & MIMA), Picture Room (NY). Beware the Cat, a research collaboration toured theatres including RSC Stratford (2019).

Image: Penny McCarthy, The Last Sea 1, 2023 © the artist. Photo Hugo Glendinning

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Graves Gallery, Surrey Street, Sheffield, United Kingdom

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