Will Gompertz in Conversation with Rana Begum

Join Barbican Artistic Director and former BBC Arts Editor Will Gompertz in conversation with London-based artist Rana Begum. Begum’s visual language draws from the urban landscape as well as geometric patterns from traditional Islamic art and architecture.

About the speakers

Will Gompertz has led the Barbcan Centre’s artistic direction and wide-raging education programmes since June 2021. His ambitious Artistic Vision aims to build on the Barbican’s role as a world-class international arts centre by investing in emerging talent, education programme and closely collaborating with its local communities, whilst increasing inclusivity and diversity among its staff, associates,
and audiences.

Rana Begun is a London-based artist, born in Bangladesh in 1977. Her work distils spatial and visual experience into ordered form. Through her refined language of Minimalist abstraction, Begum blurs the boundaries between sculpture, painting and architecture. Her visual language draws from the urban landscape as well as geometric patterns from traditional Islamic art and architecture.