A conversation between Sandy Nairne and Rev’d Lucy Winkett

17 February at 6pm, St James’s Piccadilly, London

Martyrs (Earth, Air, Water, Fire), 2014 and Mary, 2016 by Bill Viola and Kira Pirov

Sandy Nairne, former director of the National Portrait Gallery, will give an illustrated lecture about the video works at St Paul’s Cathedral by the internationally acclaimed artist Bill Viola. He will be joined in conversation by Lucy Winkett, Rector of St James’s Piccadilly.

Sandy Nairne CBE FSA
Sandy Nairne is a writer and curator based in London, and until 2015 was Director of the National Portrait Gallery. He has previously worked at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, the Arts Council and as Director of Programmes at Tate. His publications include State of the Art, 1987, the anthology Thinking about Exhibitions, 1996, and more recently The 21st Century Portrait and Art Theft and the Case of the Stolen Turners, 2011, and The Coincidence of Novembers, 2020. He is currently Chair of the Fabric Advisory Committee at St Paul’s Cathedral and the Maggie’s Art Group for Maggie’s cancer care centres. He is a Trustee of the National Trust, Deputy Chair of the Seafarers Hospital Society and a member of the Bank of England Banknote Character Advisory Committee.

Image: Fire & Air – Bill Viola at St Paul's Cathedral