Overview

Join us for a special evening as Aimee Ng, Curator at the Frick Collection in New York, engages in a captivating conversation with acclaimed artist Alison Watt about her current exhibition, “From Light,” at Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery.

Aimee Ng, an expert in Italian Renaissance art with a growing focus on British art and contemporary works, brings her unique perspective to this discussion. Alison Watt, whose ethereal paintings explore the interplay of light, shadow, and form, will share insights into her artistic process and the inspiration behind her exhibition.

About Aimee Ng

Aimee Ng is a Canadian art historian, curator, author, and podcaster. She is a specialist in Italian Renaissance art and currently serves as a curator at The Frick Collection, in New York City. Before joining The Frick Collection Aimee held academic positions at the Morgan Library & Museum, where she was postdoctoral fellow at the Morgan’s Drawing Institute in 2014, and at Columbia University, where she earned her Ph.D. She was guest curator of The Poetry of Parmigianino’s “Schiava Turca” (2014), organizing curator of Andrea del Sarto: The Renaissance Workshop in Action (2015–16), co-curator of The Pursuit of Immortality: Masterpieces from the Scher Collection of Portrait Medals (2017), co-curator of Moroni: The Riches of Renaissance Portraiture (2019), and co-curator of Bertoldo di Giovanni: The Renaissance of Sculpture in Medici Florence (2019-20).

About Alison Watt

Born in 1965 in Greenock, Scotland, Alison Watt (OBE) completed her under- and postgraduate studies at the Glasgow School of Art (1983–88) and garnered critical acclaim after receiving the 1987 John Player Portrait Award, presented by the National Portrait Gallery, London, as a student. Her monumental quadriptych Still (2004) hangs in the Memorial Chapel of Old Saint Paul’s Church, Edinburgh, in remembrance of the fallen soldiers in World War I. Beginning in 2006, she was an artist in residence at the National Gallery, London, for four years. Solo exhibitions of the artist’s work have taken place at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh (2021–22); Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, England (2018–19); Perth Museum and Art Gallery, Scotland (2014); National Gallery, London (2008); Dulwich Picture Gallery, London (2002); and the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (2000, then the youngest artist to feature in a solo presentation at the museum), among others. Her paintings can be found in permanent collections including those of the Aberdeen Art Gallery, Scotland; Arts Council Collection, London; British Council Collection, London; National Portrait Gallery, London; Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh; Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh; and the Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.