lectures / papers / conversations

  • ‘Nancy Holt: Inside Outside’, panel discussion at the Bildmuseet, Umea, Sweden, November 2022

  • ‘Nature in Culture: Modern British Art and the Environment’, panel discussion at the London Art Fair, chaired by Gabrielle Schwarz, with Rosemary Shirley and Rachel Pimm, January 2020

  • ‘In Conversation with Abigail Reynolds’, Kestle Barton, Helston, May 2017

  • ‘In Conversation with Hynek Martinec’, The Factory, London, November 2016

  • ‘Behind The New Hang: Andrew Grassie in Conversation with Ben Tufnell’ The Artist in a Collected World, Chelsea College of Arts, London, October 2016

  • ‘In Conversation with Hynek Martinec’ Vaclav Spala Gallery, Prague, October 2015

  • ‘Nancy Holt’ Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, October 2014

  • ‘In Conversation with Hamish Fulton’ Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, April 2014

  • ’Nancy Holt’ Strata Project, Nokia, Finland, March 2014

  • ‘In Conversation with Richard Fleischner’, South London Gallery, February 2014

  • ‘Nancy Holt’ International Sculpture Center Gala, New York, October 2013

  • ‘In Conversation with Tim Head’ Modern Art Oxford, September 2013

  • ‘Uncommon Ground: Land Art in Britain 1966-79’, Southampton City Art Gallery, June 2013

  • ‘In Conversation with Julie Brook’ Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh, May 2013

  • ‘In Conversation with Nancy Holt’ Revisiting Land Art, University of Southampton, May 2013

  • ‘Here and There and Now and Then: Observations on Nancy Holt’s Photoworks’ Staging the Land: Contemporary Site-specific Creation and the Issue of Perception, Symposium at University of Avignon, June 2012

  • ‘Art and Exploitation: John Berger’s Ways of Seeing at 40’, National Gallery, London, May 2012

  • ‘In Conversation with Jem Finer’ Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, April 2012

  • ‘David Nash and Land Art’ Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, Jan 2011

  • ‘Atomic Tourism and False Memories: Cai Guo-Qiang’s The Century with Mushroom CloudsArt & Environment Conference Tate Britain, London, June 2010

  • ‘Anton Henning’ Sculpture in Painting Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, 2009

  • ‘Richard Long and Land Art’ Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, 2008

  • ‘In Conversation with Hamish Fulton’ Camberwell School of Art, London, 2006

  • ‘The Body in the Landscape: Land Art, Birth and Burial’, Landscape Fictions Symposium Plymouth University, June 2005

  • ‘On Karl Weschke: Ben Tufnell in Conversation with Frank Whitford’, Tate St Ives, 2004 

  • Cedric Morris’s Portraits’ Cedric Morris Conference, NMGW, Cardiff, 2002

  • ‘Cedric Morris & Lett Haines’ Norwich Castle Museum, 2002

  • ‘Hamish Fulton: No Walk, No Work’, Tate Britain, London, 2002

  • ‘Michael Andrews: Working in Series’, Norwich Castle Museum, 2001