Join Lizzie Bisley for a floortalk in Surrealist Art: Masterpieces from Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. Lizzie co-curated the exhibition and will provide unique insights into the artwork on display, and the Surrealism movement more generally. She will draw attention, in particular, to the work and role of women Surrealists.
Lizzie Bisley is Curator Modern Art at Te Papa. She studied at Victoria University of Wellington and the Royal College of Art, London, before working as a curator at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum. While at the V&A she curated a number of major exhibitions on modernism and twentieth century design. Her research is focussed on histories of modernity, and she is interested in the close relationships between art, design and architecture in the twentieth century.