Talk: Ashish Ghadiali and Joy Sleeman in conversation

Join exhibiting artist Ashish Ghadiali and Art Historian Joy Sleeman from the Slade School of Art who will be discussing the themes in the exhibition Sensing the Planet.

This talk is part of Land, Art & Justice: a day of public engagement:

11.00 to 12.30: Ashish Ghadiali in conversation with Joy Sleeman, Director of Research at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL. £5.
12.30 to 1.30: Lunch
1.30 to 3.00: Dream Ecology: an immersive experience of Radical Ecology’s ongoing research into Dream Ecologies - free, drop in
4.00 to 5.00: Keynote presentation by eminent, decolonial, feminist scholar Françoise Vergès. Sensing the Planet completes a trilogy of lectures delivered by Vergès for Radical Ecology. £10 - book

Ashish Ghadiali is Founder/Director of Radical Ecology, a trustee of Newlyn Art Gallery and a sessional youth worker at Mountwise Neighbourhood Centre in Devonport. His creative practice explores the intersections of racial justice, art and ecology through text, film, activism and performance.

Joy Sleeman is an art historian and curator whose research is focused on the histories of sculpture and landscape, especially 1960s and 1970s Land Art and works made in Britain. With Nicholas Alfrey and Ben Tufnell she co-curated the UK touring exhibition Uncommon Ground: Land Art in Britain 1966-1979 (2013-14) and, with artist Rebecca Partridge, the exhibition Expanding Landscapes: Painting after Land Art, Hestercombe Gallery, Somerset (2022-23) and Abbot Hall, Kendal (May-September 2025). Joy is Professor of Art History and Theory at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London (UCL).