Conversation with Tai Shani and Megan Nolan

18 December 2019, 5pm

Turner Prize-winning artist, Tai Shani will take part in a public conversation with writer Megan Nolan, prior to the opening of her exhibition Tragodía.

An accompanying text response to Tragodía from Megan Nolan has been commissioned by Tai Shani and Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, which will be available to take from the gallery.

Megan Nolan

Megan Nolan is an Irish writer of essays, fiction and criticism, currently based in London. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, The White Review, and Winter Papers. Texts have been commissioned by South London Gallery, Wysing Art Centre, the V & A, and the Museum of London. She has a fortnightly column in the New Statesman. Her debut novel Acts of Desperation will be published in 2021 by Jonathan Cape in the UK and Little Brown in the USA.

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