Late Thursday - Special Workshop

Join us for a walk-in sessions on the work of British poet and painter Mina Loy and her connection to the Italian futurists of the Estorick Collection.

In this session, we invite participants on a Loy-themed guided tour of the collection, taking in key works which contextualise her role as an important member of the Florentine futurist set in the 1910s. We will then host a small workshop in which participants will be introduced to Loy’s poetry and manifestos, before being given an opportunity to apply her literary philosophy in poetry of their own.

The workshop starts at 18.30. Participants are welcome to join or leave at any time after the start.

Constance Higgins is a writer who works as an editorial assistant at Literary Review. Her writing on books and art has appeared in Literary Review, the Times Literary Supplement, the Telegraph, and Prospect Magazine.She is currently a Master’s student at the University of Oxford, where she specialises in English literature from 1900 to the present. Subjects of her recent research projects include Mina Loy, Leonora Carrington, and Djuna Barnes. She is also founder of Oxford’s life drawing society, for which she organised and lead weekly walk-in sessions.

Tom Greany is a student, researcher, and photographer. He has recently completed a research project on the British poet Mina Loy and her time spent with the futurists in Florence. Working from materials at the Estorick Collection and Yale’s Beinecke library, the project explores two unpublished satires, penned in the early 1910s, in relation to the drawings of Ardengo Soffici, much of whose work can be found at the collection. Besides study, Tom has worked as an editorial assistant in humanities and arts publishing at Routledge, interned at the Opera del Duomo museums in Florence, and undertaken funded research at Harvard’s Houghton Library. He also interns for the popular London literary event, Soho Reading Series.

Our welcoming caffè offers authentic Italian refreshments. Bring friends and enjoy an aperitivo in our conservatory.

Free entry for full-time students from 17.00.

*Free with an admission ticket valid for the same day.