Join ArtReview and Ursula on Tuesday 1 July for a conversation with Thomas J Price and Gus Casely-Hayford
ArtReview and Ursula magazine have teamed up to host a series of talks on the first Tuesday of every month in the Wine Bar underneath the Farm Shop in London’s Mayfair. Staged as a series of intimate conversations and more, set in a relaxed and casual bar, the series will allow audiences a insight into the inspirations, working methods and passions of some of today’s key visionaries from artists and thinkers, to filmmakers, designers, philosophers and architects. The events will span creative thinking and how it evolves to match our times. The series is a celebration of traditional conviviality, to be experienced live by those present rather than remotely, on screen. The talk will take place in the restaurant, where food and drink can be ordered throughout the evening.
Time: 6.30pm welcome drink, 7pm event start
Ticketed event: £10, which includes a welcome drink
Next event:
05 August: TBC
About Thomas J Price
Thomas J Price’s multidisciplinary practice confronts preconceived attitudes towards representation and identity, foregrounding the intrinsic value of the individual and subverting structures of hierarchy. Celebrated for his large-scale figurative sculptures, Price draws our attention to the psychological embodiment of his fictional characters, highlighting nuanced understandings of social signifiers and predetermined value. Amalgamated from multiple sources, the works are developed through a hybrid approach of traditional sculpting and intuitive digital technology. He encompasses historic constructs with a newness that at first glance can go unnoticed, but that live in the public realm as silent totems for change.
Price was commissioned by Hackney Council in London to create the first permanent public sculptures to celebrate the contribution of the Windrush generation and their descendants in the UK, unveiled in June 2022. Selected 2025 solo exhibitons include: Thomas J Price in Florence, Palazzo Vecchio and Museo Novecento, Florence, Italy; Thomas J Price. Resilience of Scale, Hauser & Wirth New York, Wooster Street, New York NY; Midnight Moment. Thomas J Price: Man Series, Time Square Arts, New York NY; Thomas J Price. Grounded in the Stars, Times Square Arts, New York NY; and Thomas J Price, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno NV.
About Gus Casely-Hayford
Gus Casely-Hayford is a British curator, cultural historian, broadcaster and lecturer. He has been the inaugural Director of V&A East since 2020 and was formerly the Director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art in Washington, DC. He has been a Professor of Practice at SOAS, University of London since 2021 and is a Cultural Fellow at King’s College London.
Casely-Hayford has advised organisations from the Tate and National Portrait Gallery to the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Trust, and consulted on numerous exhibitions and creative projects. He is a celebrated writer and broadcaster with several presenter credits for the BBC, Sky Arts and Channel 4. In 2017, he gave a TED Global Talk ‘The Powerful Stories that Shaped Africa’ and in 2018, was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2018 for his services to arts and culture.
