Exhibition floor talk and reading at Geelong Gallery in celebration of Bloomsday*
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Exhibiting artist, Barry Gillard, will present a floor talk in the exhibition Persistent folly: a series of charcoal drawings combining diverse imagery and texts, inspired by literary and artistic references including James Joyce’s Ulysses and William Blake’s Proverbs of Hell.
Barry will be joined by writers Gregory Day, Max Richards and Brendan Ryan who will read excerpts from James Joyce’s Ulysses.
This event is presented in conjunction with the Geelong Regional Library Corporation
* James Joyce's novel Ulysses describes the events of a single day in Dublin: June 16, 1904. Joyce chose the date because his first outing with his wife-to-be, Nora Barnacle, happened on that day, when they walked to the Dublin urban village of Ringsend. Since 1954 Bloomsday – named after the novel's main character, Leopold Bloom – has been a Joycean feast day, observed annually. It celebrates the life of Irish writer, James Joyce, and relives the events in his novel.
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