Just a quick reminder that the exhibition Edward Lear: Moment to Moment, at the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham will be opening next Saturday, 9 October.

In addition, on Monday, 12 September, there will be a symposium: Edward Lear in the Round.
Speakers include Matthew Bevis (Professor of English Literature, Oxford University), Jasmine Jagger (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Department of English and Creative Writing, University of Roehampton), Sara Lodge (Senior Lecturer in English, University of St Andrews), Noreen Masud (Lecturer in Twentieth Century Literature, University of Bristol), Kate Nichols (Birmingham Fellow in British Art, University of Birmingham), Linzi Stauvers (Head of Learning, Ikon Gallery), Jenny Uglow (Author of Mr Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense (2018)), Jonathan Watkins (Director, Ikon Gallery), Cassie Westwood (Independent scholar) and James Williams (Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of York).