HLG OFFSITE: Basic Talks – Christopher Steenson

TU Dublin School of Art & Design is delighted to host the Basic Talks programme in cooperation with Hugh Lane Gallery and Basic Space for the months of November, December 2025 and January 2026. 

Join us for the next Basic Talk with: Christopher Steenson 
Friday 5 December 2025, 1.15pm – 2.15pm 
Room EQ-203, TU Dublin, East Quad, Grangegorman Campus, D07 XFF2

This talk is free, but are spaces is limited. Please book your place here or come on the day subject to availability. 
This talk is presented as part of our HLG Explore & Learn offsite programmes during the Gallery’s period of temporary closure. 

Christopher Steenson 
Following time as a researcher and PhD candidate in psychology and movement science, Christopher Steenson began his artistic practice in 2017. Since then, his work has been presented by The MAC, Belfast (2024); Freelands Foundation, London (2024); LAVA, Mexico City (2024); Flat Time House, London, United Kingdom (2023); VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art (2022); TULCA Festival of Visual Arts: The World Was All Before Them (2022), curated by Clare Gormley; Pallas Projects/Studios, Dublin, Ireland (2022); Project DivFuse, London, United Kingdom (2022); Sonorities sound biennale (2022); CCA Derry~Londonderry (2021), curated by Locky Morris and Catherine Hemelryk; Radiophrenia (2020). 

Basic Talks is a series of talks with leading contemporary practitioners. Curated by Basic Space in partnership with Hugh Lane Gallery, BASIC TALKS is a platform for lectures, workshops, presentations, and performances. Speakers include artists, curators, writers, and critics who will generate discourse on producing, framing and exhibiting art. BASIC TALKS is a collaboration between Basic Space and the Hugh Lane Gallery, exploring alternatives in the dissemination of contemporary art and its discourses.

Image credit: Photograph by Simon Mills, courtesy the artist