Join us for the Girl Friday Breakfast Club with artist, M.Lohrum, on Friday 5 April 2024 at 8am (UK-time), convened by Anita Taylor. More information and tickets can be found here.

M. Lohrum was born in the Canary Islands (Spain) where she graduated In Fine Arts through the Interdisciplinary Projects route in 2013 in the University of La Laguna (ull) achieving the 'Premio Extraordinario de Fin de Carrera', a prize awarded to the most outstanding graduate in Fine Arts (2013). She later studied a Masters in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins (2017), where she developed in depth her abilities in video and performative drawing. She holds a PhD in Fine Arts from University of La Laguna (2023). Her work was awarded the first prize in the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize (2020), and Zealous Stories: Performance (2021). It also has been shortlisted in relevant international art competitions, such as the RBSA Drawing Prize (2023), Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize (2022), The ING Discerning Eye (2021, 2022, and 2023), Premio de Artes Plásticas Manolo Millares (2021), The Visual Art Open (2021), the Signature Art Prize (2020), Visarte Corona Call (2020), Zealous Stories: Performance (2020), and the Celeste Prize (2017), among others. In recent years, she participated in relevant international group exhibitions such as International Drawing Performance series (2024, Draw Space Sydney, Australia), Momentum (2023, Manifest Gallery, USA) Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize (2020, Drawing Projects UK, and 2022, Trinity Buoy Wharf, London, UK), The ING Discerning Eye (2021, 2022 and 2023, The Mall Galleries, UK), Field of Action: Performative Drawings and Paintings (2022, Canning Gallery, London, UK), What we do when we cannot do what we do (2020, B74 Raum für Kunst, Luzern, Switzerland), 'The Angel, Azrail’ (2020, Bétonsalon, Center for Art and Research, Paris, France), Studiolo XXI, Desehno e Afinidades (2019, Fundação Eugénio de Almeida, Évora, portugal), Every Me (Adana, Turkey), Draw to Perform: Live Performance Event (2018, The Copper Dollar Studios, Brighton, UK), Complex Topography, Movement and Change as part of the Setouchi Triennale at Ritsurin Garden (2016, Takamatsu, Japan), and several participations in the programmes What is an Art School?, Studio Complex, and Come Together: Art and Politics in a Climate of Unrest, curated by Alex Schady in collaboration with Tate Exchange (2017, 2018, and 2019, Tate Modern, London, UK).

Among her most relevant individual exhibitions we could mention Re-Thinking the Trace (2019, Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Spain, and 2022, The Stone Space, London, UK), Performative Traces (2021, Galería Manuel Ojeda, Spain), and Drawing is Action (2023, Centro de Arte La Regenta and sala de Exposiciones del Itto. Canarias cabrera Pinto, Spain).

She has lectured on performative drawing at several different universities and art centres, such as Trinity Buoy Wharf (2022, United Kingdom), Universidad de Sevilla (2021 and 2023, Spain), Art University Bournemouth (2021, United Kingdom), Politécnico do Porto (2021, Portugal), Falmouth University (2021, United Kingdom), Bath Spa University (2021, United Kingdom), Drawing Projects UK (2020, United Kingdom), Universidad de La Laguna (2020, Spain), Fundação Eugénio de Almeida (2019, Portugal), and Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2019, 2020 and 2022, Spain), among others. She has participated as an artist in the art residency programmes Every Me Residency (2019, Adana, Turkey), D2P Residency (2018, Brighton, UK), Sample Micro-Residency (2017, Central Saint Martins, London) and Tokyo Geidai Residency (2016, Tokyo, Japan), as well as in the peer mentoring group of the LifeBoat Residency (London, 2018-2019).

Anita Taylor is an artist, curator and educator, and Dean of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design at the University of Dundee. She is the founding Director of the foremost annual Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize [since 1994], and Drawing Projects UK, a public-facing initiative dedicated to drawing [since 2009].

The Girl Friday Breakfast Club was established by Professors Kate Reynolds and Anita Taylor in 2018 to provide a friendly and informal space for women to meet and to hear from an interesting woman speaker over a delicious breakfast at Drawing Projects UK on the last Friday of each month. We held our first online Girl Friday in October 2020 after realising we had longer to go before we could gather again for breakfast due to lockdown, and have continued in this format. We aim to retain the informal format online, and events are not recorded, so do book to join in - and bring your own breakfast - or lunch or supper depending on where you are in the world! All women, and those who identify as women, are very welcome to join the Girl Friday Breakfast Club.

Please note that Annual Season Ticket Holders will have already received an email with a direct joining link for this event.

We look forward to welcoming you to the Girl Friday Breakfast Club on Friday!

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