Find Your Story Here: Prunella Clough’s “Machine and Birds”
Rachel Stratton explores the relationship and tension between the industrial post-war landscape and the natural world in Prunella Clough’s Machine and Birds. The talk features readings by Abram Knott, Yale 2027, of selected poetry written by Clough.
About this program
In celebration of Women’s History Month, join us for a series of conversations that explore works in the exhibition Going Modern: British Art, 1900–1960 that focus on the contributions of women to Britain’s modern art movement. Each talk focuses on a single work and is paired with a poetry reading or literary excerpt to complement the object in a unique way.
About Rachel Stratton
Rachel Stratton is an independent scholar and curator of twentieth- and twenty-first-century art and a former Postdoctoral Research Associate at the YCBA. She authored the gallery interpretation for Going Modern: British Art, 1900–1960 and has curated multiple exhibitions for the YCBA, including Isaac Julien: Lina Bo Bardi–A Marvellous Entanglement (Yale School of Architecture) and the forthcoming retrospective Gwen John: Strange Beauties, for which she is coeditor of the catalogue.
Find Your Story Here
British art is expansive and inclusive. Find yourself in our collections through these intimate talks in our galleries.
