In Conversation With Gill Gregory
Sun 31 May
|Music Room (Seated)
Art, memory, and storytelling collide in this illustrated talk by writer Dr Gill Gregory
Time & Location
31 May 2026, 14:00 – 16:00
Music Room (Seated), 7-15 Fye Bridge St, Norwich NR3 1LJ, UK
About the event
Sunday 31 May | 2:00–4:00pm
Dr Gill Gregory is the author of poetry, biography, award-winning life writing, and a memoir told through the paintings that have shaped her life. From an early age she possessed a strong visual imagination and was greatly influenced by her “Uncle Laurie,” an art therapist who worked with shell-shocked soldiers during and after the Second World War.
Gill’s grandfather, Alexis, became a doctor and art collector after escaping Tashkent during the Russian Revolution of 1905. She grew up with her late, much-missed brother Andrew, who suffered from severe epilepsy. As a child, she imagined his seizures as “explosions” in his mind.
Cornelia Parker’s installation Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View (1991) became a key motif in Gill’s artistic journey, alongside works by Paul Cézanne, Odilon Redon, Rachel Whiteread, and others.
For six years, Gill lived in a studio “for poor scholars” next door to a…