Joie de Faire (the making of stuff) PUBLIC EVENT

Wednesday 29 November 2-4pm, Margaret Street - Lecture Room

joie de faire is a conversation between

• artist Françoise Dupré, Lecturer at the Department of Art
• Stuart Davie, Director of Paintings in Hospitals
• Kate Broom, practitioner in the social/therapeutic uses of art and Course Director of the new MA Art, Health and Well-Being at the Department of Art

The conversation will be followed by an open public discussion

Three speakers, working in the art and health care context, each with distinct professional perspective and practice, reflect and discuss the artist’s recent Alexandra Reinhardt Award Residency at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford

Commissioned by Paintings in Hospitals and supported by the Max Reinhardt Charitable Trust, this annual Artist in Residency was hosted by the Feto-Maternal Medicine Department at the John Radcliffe Hospital.

A transcript of the conversation will be printed in the forthcoming publication joie de faire (the making of stuff) to be published by Article Press in March 2007and launched at the opening of Françoise Dupré solo exhibition at Paintings in Hospitals (Menier Chocolate Factory Gallery) in London

The event and publication are supported by the Max Reinhardt Charitable Trust, Paintings in Hospital, PONY, Needles Industries (India) Private Limited and UCE

joie de faire (the making of stuff) public event, exhibition, publication and the Alexandra Reinhardt award residency are part of Françoise Dupré research project here and there

“joie de faire” (joy of making) is a term used by scholar Ellen Dissanayake when discussing the role of art in human society. For her, humans have an inherent “joie de faire”: pleasure in making and “making special” are “hardwired into human nature”. The term has been used with Ellen Dissanayake's kind permission.

To book a place for this event contact kate.broom@uce.ac.uk

Kate Broom
23rd November 2006