In Conversation: Joanne Leonard, Griselda Pollock & Fiona Rogers: HackelBury in collaboration with London Gallery Weekend

HaceklBury hosted an In Conversation on 6 Friday of June at 10:30 between Joanne Leonard, Griselda Pollock and Fiona Rogers. The conversation discussed Leonard's artistic evolution, her innovative approach to visual storytelling, and the work in the forthcoming exhibition, Vintage Photographs and Early Collages.

Following the talk, there was the opportunity to visit the V&A Print Room for a special viewing of Journal of a Miscarriage, the newly acquired work by Joanne Leonard.

This event was a part of London Gallery Weekend, which will take place 6 - 8 June 2025.

Biographies: 

Joanne Leonard is an American artist renowned for her transformative and expansive conceptual photographic practice. This later developed into new forms of photo-collage to explore the overlooked spaces, conditions and moments within women’s working and parenting lives. Leonard’s work was hailed by American feminist critic Lucy Lippard in her collection From the Center (1976). Leonard is also widely studied for intermedial work, text and images in Being in Pictures: An Intimate Photo Memoir (2008).

Griselda Pollock is a feminist, postcolonial, and social art historian and curator, and Professor Emerita at the University of Leeds. She has received major honours including the Holberg Prize (2020) and the CAA Lifetime Achievement Award (2023). She has curated exhibitions at venues including the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh (1980), the 14th Istanbul Biennial (2015) and Medium and Memory (2023) for HackelBury. Her writing focuses on modern and contemporary art, trauma, and cultural memory.

Fiona Rogers is the inaugural Parasol Foundation Curator of Women in Photography at the V&A. Fiona has curated exhibitions with artists such as Theo Simpson, Marvel Harris, and Zora J Murff, and has written for publications like Photoworks and the British Journal of Photography. A supporter of emerging talent, she has served on juries and at festivals internationally. She is a member of the RPS Awards Committee and a trustee of both the Martin Parr and Peter Marlow Foundations.