The Creative Conversations Speaker series returns for its fifth year. All events are free and open to the public.
This series is sponsored by the Ferguson Bequest and programmed by Creative Writing at University of Glasgow.
- Books by featured authors will be for sale at the events (cash only) and in John Smiths bookshop.
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Creative Conversations: Kirsty Mackay
Creative Conversations: Kirsty Mackay
Creative Conversations
Date: Monday 20 January 2025
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Venue: Glasgow University Memorial Chapel
Category: Public lectures
Speaker: Kirsty Mackay
Website: www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/creative-writing-admin-team-8421705141
Kirsty Mackay is an photographic artist, educator, activist and filmmaker.
Her research-led documentary practice highlights social issues surrounding gender, class and discrimination. She has an MA in Documentary photography from University of South Wales, Newport.
Her current book project The Fish That Never Swam, considers class and discrimination against working-class people. Combining first-person narratives with photographs, it takes Glasgow as a case study, looking at the root causes of the city’s poor health outcomes and lower life expectancy.
Examining the relationship between the environment, government policy, historical trauma, and public health. It shifts the emphasis from individual life style choices to the effects that political policies have on our bodies. It will be published as a book in 2021.
Her work has been exhibited internationally, most recently in the Facing Britain group show, an observation of British Documentary Photography since the 60’s alongside works by Martin Parr, Anna Fox & David Hurn, Museum Goch, Germany.