Join this free in-person meeting of the Trowbridge Poetry Society Stanza at Drawing Projects UK on Saturday 5 March from 2pm to 4pm by registering here.

The session is convened by poet Josephine Corcoran and will include a guest presentation by artist and writer Roma Tearne whose drawing School's Out is included in the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2021 exhibition. The presentation will be followed by a gentle open-mic session with participants sharing poems written in response to the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2021 exhibition. The Trowbridge Poetry Society Stanza session on Saturday 5 February 2022 explored the drawings on the exhibition as sources of inspiration for new poems. There is no obligation to be a Poetry Society member to join the Trowbridge Poetry Stanza and everyone is welcome to join this participative session.

Roma Tearne (b.1953 Colombo, Sri Lanka) studied at Ruskin School of Drawing & Fine Art, University of Oxford (2000-01). She was Leverhulme Artist in Residence at the Ashmolean Museum (2002-03). Group exhibitions include: Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London (1997, 1998, 2019, 2020); D.O.B-D.O.D., Modern Art Oxford (2004); The Swimmer, Oxford Brookes Pavilion, Venice Biennale (2011); Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2019, London & tour (2019-20). Solo exhibitions include: Nel Corpo della città, Museo Laboratorio di Art Contemporaneo, ‘La Sapienza’ Rome & Arts Council England (2004); Flashline, National Museum of Scotland (2007); Brixton Beach the Drawings, 198 Gallery (2009). Her seven novels have been short-listed for the Costa Book Awards (2007); Orange Prize (2012); and Asian Man Booker (2012). She received an award from the Author’s Society (2016) and won the Hugh Casson Drawing Prize at the Royal Academy (2020). Roma lives and works in Oxford. Her drawing, School’s Out, 2021, is made in response to a found photograph from the 1950s and reflects a creative response to the loss of personal archives.

The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2021 exhibition is presented at Drawing Projects UK from 8 January to 5 March 2022. The exhibition of 114 drawings by 99 drawing practitioners is free to visit - from Tuesday to Saturday, 11am to 4pm. The presentation of the exhibition and the associated events programme at Drawing Projects UK is kindly supported using public funding by Arts Council England. 

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