To Improvise A Mountain - Lunchtime Talks

Join our curators for lunchtime tours of our major exhibition To Improvise A Mountain: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Curates.

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, one of the most important figurative painters today, presents this new exhibition of works critical to her way of seeing and thinking, inviting audiences on a personal journey through art past and present.

Featuring artists including Bas Jan Ader, Lisa Brice, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Samuel Fosso, Peter Hujar, Kahlil Joseph, Toyin Ojih Odutola, The Otolith Group, Jennifer Packer, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Walter Sickert, David Wojnarowicz, To Improvise A Mountain brings together Yiadom-Boakye’s work into conversation with an eclectic range of other historical and contemporary artists, illuminating her creative process.

To Improvise a Mountain: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Curates is an exhibition developed by the artist in collaboration with Hayward Gallery Touring which opens at Leeds Art Gallery before touring to MK Gallery, Milton Keynes and Nottingham Castle.