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Beckett and the Visual Arts and Media, 6-12 February 2009 was a collaboration of the Naughton Gallery, Drama Studies at Queen’s, the Queen’s Film Theatre, and Reading University. The programme marked the 20th anniversary of the death of globally renowned writer, Samuel Beckett, and included an exhibition of Beckett’s Doodles by artist Bill Prosser, a series of films including Beckett’s Film, and a seminar on Beckett and the Visual Arts and Media.
The Beckett and Visual Arts and Media programme was launched with an exhibition of Beckett Conference, Beckett and the Visual Arts, by Bill Prosser in the Naughton Gallery at Queen’s. The images are based on the figurative doodles from the margins of Human Wishes, an unfinished play by Samuel Beckett written some time between 1937 and 1940. Prosser worked as an illustrator for many years with clients ranging from The Times to American Express. In 2008 his drawings were shown in The University of Rome and Art et Litterature in Paris. The drawings in this exhibition form part of a research project entitled Beckett and the Phenomenology of Doodles, at the University of Reading, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, which aims to bring attention to this little-known aspect of Beckett’s output. Prosser is making a drawn catalogue of all Beckett’s spontaneous drawings held by the Beckett International Foundation at the University of Reading, as well as an extended series of larger works. It is hoped that Beckett’s drawings can begin to be appreciated in their own right, and not seen simply as the quirky by-products of an iconic author. The exhibition was accompanied by an introductory talk by Beckett expert, Professor Mary Bryden (University of Reading).
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