Walter Sickert is an artist whose work is a bridge between English and French painting in the rapidly changing world of the late 1800’s leading well into the 20th Century. Drawing from the well springs of his mentors James Whistler and Edgar Degas in his formative years, his work is a constant tension between fast and slow. As a young man who worked in the theater, his painting never lost the notion of theatricality. Nor his life.

Straws of Sickert will shine a light on this Heatherleys alumni by presenting his formative years, the Camden Town Nudes series, and his unique late work derived from photographic sources.

About the Lecturer: 

Michael Ajerman is a painter born in New York. As a teenager he took part in the Cooper Union Outreach Program, afterwards studying at the Corcoran School of Art, the New York Studio School and the Yale Summer School at Norfolk. Later completed his Masters Degree at the Slade School of Art and receiving the British Institute Award from the Royal Academy the same year. In 2018 he was awarded UCLA’s Kitaj Research Fellowship.

He has consistently exhibited internationally in solo and group shows. Currently he is showing in the East Wing Collection 16 at the Courtauld Institute’s University. His writing has recently been included in the monograph The Uglow Papers. He also writes for the Garageland Blog.

Since 2020 he has been lecturing about painting visionaries like Paula Modersohn Becker, Maria Lassnig, RB Kitaj, and Philip Guston. These talks have been presented at such institutions as the Camberwell School of Art, New York Studio School, Ruskin School at Oxford University, the Courtauld Institute, and Heatherleys School of Fine Art.

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