Thursday 7 October 7pm via Zoom
This evening’s guest is Australian artist, writer and educator, Anthony Luvera. Luvera has designed education and mentorship programmes, facilitated workshops, and given lectures for the public education departments of National Portrait Gallery, Tate, Royal Academy of Arts, The Photographers’ Gallery, Photofusion, Barbican Art Gallery, and community photography projects across the UK.
Luvera is based in London and is an associate professor of photography in the Research Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities at Coventry University whilst also being the Chair of the Education Committee at the Royal Photographic Society.
This artist has worked extensively within the LQBTQ community and also with people who have experienced homelessness. Many of these projects use his “assisted self-portrait” methodology, where the subject of the photograph, assisted by Luvera, makes and selects the pictures. One such project, Stories from Gilded Pavements, was displayed in 11 central London Underground stations in 2005, part of Art on the Underground.
This photographic project and others have been exhibited widely in galleries, public spaces and festivals, including Tate Liverpool, The Gallery at Foyles, the British Museum, London Underground’s Art on the Underground, National Portrait Gallery London, Belfast Exposed Photography, Australian Centre for Photography, PhotoIreland, Malmö Fotobiennal, Goa International Photography Festival and Arles Photo Festival. His writing appears regularly in a wide range of publications including Photoworks, Source and Photographies.
Website https://www.luvera.com