For the months of November, December 2025 and January 2026, Hugh Lane Gallery & Basic Talks are delighted to have the Basic Talks programme hosted by the TU Dublin School of Art & Design, Grangegorman, Dublin 7. Full details on how to get to this location will be posted on this page.
Join us for a Basic Talks with Christopher Steenson.
Following time as a researcher and PhD candidate in psychology and movement science, Christopher Steenson began his artistic practice in 2017. Since then, his work has been presented by The MAC, Belfast (2024); Freelands Foundation, London (2024); LAVA, Mexico City (2024); Flat Time House, London, United Kingdom (2023); VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art (2022); TULCA Festival of Visual Arts: The World Was All Before Them (2022), curated by Clare Gormley; Pallas Projects/Studios, Dublin, Ireland (2022); Project DivFuse, London, United Kingdom (2022); Sonorities sound biennale (2022); CCA Derry~Londonderry (2021), curated by Locky Morris and Catherine Hemelryk; Radiophrenia (2020).
Free, book or come on the day subject to availability.
Basic Talks is a series of talks with leading contemporary practitioners, taking place at the Hugh Lane Gallery. Curated by Basic Space in partnership with Hugh Lane Gallery, BASIC TALKS is a platform for lectures, workshops, presentations, and performances. Speakers include artists, curators, writers, and critics who will generate discourse on producing, framing and exhibiting art. BASIC TALKS is a collaboration between Basic Space and the Hugh Lane Gallery, exploring alternatives in the dissemination of contemporary art and its discourses.
Image credit: Photograph by Simon Mills, courtesy the artist
