Anna McNay

Events

Read My Lips

Panel discussion with three of the exhibiting artists – Howard Dyke, Marcelle Hanselaar and Freya Pocklington – regarding their representation of women and woman.


In Conversation with Maria Bell-Salter

In conversation with the artist at the Garden Museum, London, to coincide with her exhibition, Fruition

15 March 2024


Extraordinary Women Symposium

Introducing the women artists section of a full-day symposium organised by the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution

9 March 2024


Women Artists Through Their Words

Lecture series on selected women artists, telling the story in their own words, be that memoirs, journals, letters, short stories or interviews…

including:

Frida Kahlo, Gwen John, Georgia O’Keeffe, Leonora Carrington, Tracey Emin, Judy Chicago, Marina Abramovic, Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Barbara Kruger, Barbara Hepworth, Francesca Woodman, Monica Sjöö, Angelica Kauffman, Zanele Muholi, Camille Claudel, Louise Bourgeois, Niki de Saint Phalle, Claude Cahun, Paula Rego, Yayoi Kusama, Agnes Martin …

Letchworth Settlement, Letchworth Garden City

H’arts in Mind, The Galleria, Hatfield

ongoing from July 2023


Things Will Continue To Change

Zoom panel discussion with Perdita Sinclair, Matthew Burrows, Suzanne O’Haire and Kanyinsola Adeleye

7 April 2022


UKNMWA: How Covid Affected my Art with Chila Burman and Annie Morris

Zoom panel discussion with Chila Kumari Singh Burman

and Annie Morris

26 May 2021


In Conversation with Victoria Rance

Zoom in conversation with Victoria Rance at her exhibition In Real Life at Cable Depot

21 March 2021


Living with Trauma

Online premiere of Jordan Baseman’s film A Different Kind of Different with presentations by Anna McNay, Mary Jane Haake, Jade de Montserrat, Sally O’Reilly and Jordan Baseman, hosted by Matt’s Gallery

14 January 2021


UKNMWA: In Conversation with Rana Begum

Zoom in conversation

9 December 2020

 


Connected through Culture: Paul Celan 100

Zoom panel with Peter Harrap, Gabriel H Decuble, Marius von Brasch and Florin Ungureanu

23 November 2020


UKNWA: In Conversation with Polly Morgan

Zoom in conversation

 

10 November 2020


In Conversation with Mindy Lee

Zoom in conversation

23 September 2020


Heatherleys Online: In Conversation with Rosalind Davis and Justin Hibbs

Zoom in conversation

 

24 July 2020


Heatherleys Online: In Conversation with James Lloyd

Zoom in conversation

24 July 2020


Heatherleys Online: In Conversation with Simon Davis

Zoom in conversation

10 July 2020


Heatherleys Online: In Conversation with Graham Crowley

Zoom in conversation

26 June 2020


Heatherleys Online: In Conversation with Susie Hamilton

Zoom in conversation

12 June 2020


Selector for RWA168: Annual Open Exhibition

RWA168

 


Masculinities: Queering the Gaze

Queer British Art Special Interest Group zoom panel with Aneta Bartos,

Campbell X and Sadie Lee

11 June 2020


Heatherley’s Online: In Conversation with Sadie Lee

Zoom in conversation

29 May 2020


Beyond Other Horizons

International Museum Day Zoom interview with the Romanian Cultural Institute, 18 May 2020

Beyond Other Horizons
British Council Symposium relating to the exhibition
Iași Palace of Culture, Romania, 3 March 2020

Made in Britain | 82 Painters of the 21st Century

Chairing and speaking at a symposium relating to the exhibition
Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, Poland, 15 March 2019


Queer Art and Identity

Film screening and Q&A with Lois Norman, Sarah Jane Moon and Minna Stevens
The Heatherley School of Fine Art, 27 February 2019

Murder of the Art Schools

Panel discussion with Katharine Heron and Michael McNay as part of ‘Patrick Heron: His Painting Now’ symposium
Turner Contemporary, Margate, 23 November 2018

St Nowhere

Artists’ Talk with Rob Reed, Gill Rocca, Rosey Prince and Narbi Price
Lewisham Arthouse, 28 July 2018


Getting Away!

Artists’ Talk and Panel
Arthouse1, 28 July 2018

Love and the Arts

In conversation with Veronique Maria
Winter Pride Arts Programme
House of St Barnabas, 31 May 2018

Queer Gaze from Poland: A Portrait of Love and Desire

Panel with curators and artists
Bermondsey Project Space, 23 May 2018

Introduction to the work of Shani Rhys James at the opening of her exhibition ‘This Inconstant State’ at Connaught Brown

This Inconstant State, Connaught Brown
19 April 2018

Working Together – The Opportunities and Challenges of Artist Collectives: a panel discussion with Adelaide Damoa, Anna McNay, Paul Clifford and Susan J Mumford

Panel Discussion
CASS Art Islington
11 April 2018

The Suffragettes: Millennial Rebels

Panel Discussion with Nicolas Laborie, Claire Strickland, Diane Atkinson, Vanessa Woolf and Tilda Lewis
Islington Arts Factory
19 March 2018

Threesome in conversation

A panel discussion/in conversation with artists Roxana Halls, Sadie Lee and Sarah Jane Moon at part of the exhibition Threesome at New Art Projects
New Art Projects, 9 February 2018
 

Massaging the Message symposium

A symposium in association with the exhibition of the same name, showcasing works by The Magma Group. Chaired by Annie Zamero. Other speakers: Professor Michael Archer and Michael Glover.
Arthouse 1, 12 December 2017

Voyeuristic Tendencies: a panel discussion

A panel discussion on the intersection of artistic practice, psychoanalysis and visual theory on the topic of scopophilia
With Rubyyy Jones, queer performance activist, Anna McNay, arts journalist and Adriana Cerne, director of Leyden Gallery, in conversation with Sarah Muirhead 
Leyden Gallery, 11 October 2017


Getting Press in the Art World

A Panel and Q&A with Tabish Khan and Be Smart About Art
CASS Art Islington, 9 August 2017

Anything Goes? Contemporary British Painting

Mini Panel Discussion with Lucy Cox, Day Bowman, Wendy Elia, Phil Ilingworth and Nicholas Middleton
Art Bermondsey Project Space, 29 July 2017

In Conversation with Paula MacArthur at Rye Creative Centre

In conversation with Paula MacArthur
3 June 2017

In Conversation with Nick Malone at Art Bermondsey Project Space

In Conversation with Nick Malone

18 March 2017


In Conversation with Leanne Pearce at Leyden Gallery

In Conversation with Leanne Pearce

8 March 2017


In Conversation with David Remfry at the Heatherley School of Fine Art

In Conversation with David Remfry

20 February 2017


In Conversation with Liliane Lijn at the Heatherley School of Fine Art

In Conversation with Liliane Lijn
16 January 2017
 

In Conversation with Phil Hale at the Heatherley School of Fine Art

In Conversation with Phil Hale
28 November 2016

In Conversation with Judith Burrows at Cecil Sharp House

In Conversation with Judith Burrows
7 November 2016

In Conversation with Eileen Hogan at the Heatherley School of Fine Art

In Conversation with Eileen Hogan

31 October 2016


In Conversation with Almuth Tebbenhoff at the Heatherley School of Fine Art

In Conversation with Almuth Tebbenhoff
3 October 2016

In Conversation with Julie Umerle at AB Project Space

In Conversation with Julie Umerle
3 September 2016

Judge for the Secret Art Prize

August 2016


Judge for the Lacey Contemporary Summer Arts Prize

August 2016


Judge for the Zealous Visual Art Prize

July 2016


In Conversation with Shani Rhys James at the Heatherley School of Fine Art

In Conversation with Shani Rhys James

23 May 2016


In Conversation with Eileen Cooper at the Heatherley School of Fine Art

In Conversation with Eileen Cooper
9 May 2016

In Conversation with Alan Rankle at Art Bermondsey Project Space

26 April 2016

Judge for the Emerald Winter Pride Art Awards

April 2016


In Conversation with Alex J Wood at New Art Projects

25 February 2016

In Conversation with Russell Baker at Art Bermondsey Project Space as part of the Art Bermondsey Trail

29 November 2015

Panel Chair at LGBTQI Identities: Asian Art Perspective at Menier Gallery for the 8th GFEST Gaywise FESTival 2015

14 November 2015

Lecture on The Semiology of Self-Portraiture at RA Schools

9 November 2015

In Conversation with Paul Carter at Lubomirov Angus-Hughes

7 November 2015

In Conversation with Marguerite Horner at Art Bermondsey Project Space

26 October 2015

Programme Advisor for the 8th GFEST Gaywise FESTival 2015

Including delivering a presentation on the relevance of an LGBT/queer arts festival alongside mainstream art at the press briefing, K&L Gates, 22 September 2015


Jury member for the International Competition of Contemporary Arts, 

Art Weeks in China


Judge for the inaugural LFEST DIVA Art Award 2015

August 2015


Eileen Cooper RA: Drawn from the Imagination

In conversation with Eileen Cooper RA
Royal Academy of Arts
8 June 2015
PODCAST available here

Fragmentary presents: Artist talks

Chair of session with Daniel Regan, Liz Atkin and Antonia Attwood
Kentish Town Health Centre
5 June 2015

#EroticCensorship: The Case of Leena McCall’s Portrait of Ms Ruby May Standing

Plenary lecture and in conversation with Leena McCall at Talking Bodies 2015
University of Chester
31 March 2015

Chevalier d’Eon: Gender Transgressor at Loudest Whispers 2015

Host of panel discussion with artist Simon Croft and LGBT sociologist Natacha Kennedy
St Pancras Hospital Conference Centre
27 February 2015

Queer Media Festival 2015

On-stage speaker
Contact Theatre, Manchester
7 February 2015

GFEST 2014 Visual Arts Exhibition on LGBT Myths and Mythologies

panel member alongside artists Sadie Lee and Matthew Stradling, chaired by Prof Johnny Golding
Menier Gallery
21 November 2014

‘Erotic Censorship’: Leena McCall’s Portrait of Ms Ruby May, Standing

Chair of panel discussion with Leena McCall, Frances Borzello & Zoe Margolis
Leyden Gallery
24 July 2014