Penny McCarthy’s ‘Inspired by Leonardo’ talks at the Sheffield Millennium Gallery this April

Sheffield Hallam University’s Reader in Fine Art Penny McCarthy will be holding two events this April at Sheffield’s Millennium Gallery, coinciding with the Leonardo da Vinci: A Life in Drawing exhibition which continues until Monday 06 May 2019. Penny will be discussing her own approach and drawing practice and her experience of studying Leonardo’s work.

Inspired by Leonardo Discussion Group: Drawing from the Archive – Leonardo’s Notebooks and Contemporary Ideas
Sheffield Millennium Gallery, S1 2PP
Thursday 04 April 2019, 6PM – 8PM
Free to attend

In this session, Penny will discuss her approach to understanding Leonardo’s work through her own practice as an artist and through visual thinking and picture reading.

Inspired by Leonardo Lunchtime Talk: Penny McCarthy – Sala delle Asse
Sheffield Millennium Gallery, S1 2PP
Monday 15 April 2019, 1PM – 1.45PM
Free to attend

Leonardo’s Sala delle Asse in Milan’s Castello Sforzesco has a long history of obscurity as it was lost for centuries behind plaster and then hidden by a poor restoration.

In this lunchtime talk, Penny will discuss how she has returned to this work over a period of years to study it through her own own drawing practice.

Penny McCarthy is a Reader in Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University. Find out more about her work here.

Banner image credits: Leonardo da Vinci, Studies of water, c.1510-13. Royal Collection Trust © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2019 & Sailko [CC BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)]