After Work: Cline Condorelli (Talbot Rice Gallery Editions)

Céline Condorelli is an artist, living mostly in London, UK. Her practice is concerned with how our encounters with the material world take place by relying on it, and that all human action takes place amidst countless structures of support mostly taken for granted, and therefore, appearing invisible. Recent exhibitions include After Work, South London Gallery, UK (2022); Conversation Piece (Spinning), Remai Modern, Saskatoon, Canada (2022); Tools for Imagination playground commissioned by South London Gallery, Elmington Estate,UK (2021); Our Silver City, 2094, Nottingham Contemporary (2021/2022); Work, Work, Work (Work), Muzeum Sztuki, Poland (2021); Two Years’ Vacation, Frac Lorraine, France and TEA, Spain (2020). She is The National Gallery's 2023 Artist in Residence.

Jay Bernard is a writer from London. Their practice is interdisciplinary and rooted in social histories. Jay’s debut poetry collection and performance, Surge won the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award 2020 and the Ted Hughes Award 2017. Jay works as a programmer at BFI Flare (London’s LGBTQIA film festival) and is currently a fellow of the DAAD programme in Berlin.

Tessa Giblin is the Director of Talbot Rice Gallery at the University of Edinburgh, where she holds a Personal Chair in Contemporary Curating with Edinburgh College of Art. She has recently curated solo exhibitions of Angelica Mesiti, Emeka Ogboh, Samson Young, Lucy Skaer, David Claerbout and Jesse Jones. She was commissioner and curator of Jesse Jones’ Tremble Tremble for Ireland at the 57th Biennale di Venezia (2017), which has since continued to tour internationally. She is part of the acquisitions committee of the Frac Bretagne 2020–2022, and from 2006–2016 was Curator of Project Arts Centre in Dublin, Ireland.

Melissa MacRobert is Deputy Director at Talbot Rice Gallery. With a focus on project management, artist commissions, research and touring - she has produced exhibitions with Angelica Mesiti, Emeka Ogboh, Samson Young, Myriam Lefkowitz and Lucy Skaer in addition to various major international group exhibitions including The Normal, Pine’s Eye, Borderlines and At the Gates. She was co-editor of Emeka Ogboh Song of the Union (Talbot Rice Gallery, 2021) and has co-ordinated a number of artist publications including Ken Price A Survey of Sculptures and Drawings (H&W Publishers/DelMonico Prestel, 2017); Guillermo Kuitca (H&W Publishers/Snoeck, 2016); Phyllida Barlow Fifty Years of Drawings (JRP Ringier, 2014); Takesada Matsutani A Matrix (JRP Ringier, 2013).

Lucy Steeds is a writer, teacher and occasional curator, based at Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. Her research centres on art in its public moment, historically and around the world, where this has challenged norms in ways that are useful to reflect on here and today. Her co-edited books include, Art and its Worlds (2021), Curating After the Global (2019) and How Institutions Think (2017). She is responsible for Exhibition in the Documents of Contemporary Art series (2014).