Exhibiting Outdoors: Anna Clough & Poppy Bowers in Conversation

An in-conversation on the topic of exhibiting artwork outdoors from both a practitioner and a curatorial perspective

About the speakers

Anna Clough is an artist from Cumbria, currently based in Manchester. Led by process, her work spans sculpture, installation, and video. Clough’s work explores landscape, questioning the entanglement of natural, human and industrial ecologies. Throughout her work, she considers links between interspecies communication, deep time and materiality. Alongside her solo practices, she works with community members, spending time in the land and its archives, exploring coexistence and interconnections.  Clough often works outside, responding to site-specific contexts using locally sourced natural materials to create sculptural works. 

Poppy Bowers is Senior Curator (Exhibitions) at the Whitworth in Manchester, where she works across exhibitions, commissions, publishing and acquisitions of contemporary art.  Curating in the public realm has been a component of her practice since 2012 when…