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Date: Wednesday, 15 December 2021
Time: 20:00 21:30
Avoiding Blake, Defeated by a Flea in the Ear is presented by Brian Catling - poet, sculptor, novelist, peformance artist and professor of Fine Art at the Ruskin School in Oxford.

Avoiding Blake with Brian Catling

Defeated by a Flea in the Ear

The Ghost of a Flea Wearing a Jiminy Cricket Mask by Brian Catling

Brian Catling, RA, is an English sculptor, poet, novelist, film maker, performance artist and professor of Fine Art at the Ruskin School in Oxford. But he is far more than this; he embodies the very question that Blake manifests: where does all this creativity arise? The recent edition of Arena on BBC television explores the provenance of Brian Catling’s brilliance: Where Does It All Come From?