Uncertainty is ‘the essence of being human’, writes Margaret Heffernan; all human activity has to grapple with the limits of our knowledge about the world. This discussion event forms part of an interdisciplinary collaboration in which lawyers and artists explore intractable uncertainty problems and consider the different ways in which law and art encounter factual uncertainty. How do we understand uncertainty? Is it a threat to our credibility or an opportunity for discovery? And what means do lawyers and artists have to understand, use, or overcome uncertainty? Through the discussions, project participants will present their work and their engagement with uncertainty, considering the process of collaboration and the insights that emerge in terms of the relationships between art, law and knowledge.

Panel discussion event with refreshments. Spaces limited – please register.

Discussants

Lauren Godfrey

Lauren Godfrey is an artist based in London working across sculpture, drawing and large-scale public projects. Since graduating from the Slade School of Fine Art, she has regularly exhibited nationally and internationally with a solo show at De La Warr Pavilion in 2019 and group shows including Irvine Fine Arts in Los Angeles and Vitrine Gallery, London. She has created large-scale public installations across London at Newham Hospital, Coal Drops Yard and Kingsgate Workshops. Lauren also has a podcast, PATTERN PORTRAITS, in which she interviews fellow pattern lovers about their life and work through the lens of the patterned textiles and objects they surround themselves with. www.laurengodfrey.co.uk

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Jack Lewdjaw

Jack Lewdjaw (b.1990 Loughborough) is an artist and educator who lives and works in Birmingham. He is Co-Director of the gallery east bristol contemporary, Director of the alternative arts education project Day School, and a Lecturer at Birmingham School of Art. He was also a participant of Syllabus V: a peer-led alternative learning programme run in partnership with Wysing Arts Centre, Eastside Projects, Spike Island, The Newbridge Project, Iniva, and S1 Artspace. Selected exhibitions include: To Live a Thousand Years in One Poem, Gallery 36, Newcastle (2023), The Age of Dreamers is Over, Grand Union, Birmingham (2022), MAD as MAP, News of the World, London (2019), Open/Closed, SERF, Leeds (2018), East Midlands Today, Two Queens, Leicester (2017), eeeeeeeee, CBS Gallery, Liverpool (2017), Future Late, Tate Modern, London (2016), Platform, Modern Art Oxford (2013). jacklewdjaw.com

Andrew J Bell

Andrew Bell is a lecturer in law at the University of Bristol and a Fellow of the European Centre of Tort and Insurance Law. His research and teaching centre on private obligations from doctrinal, comparative and historical perspectives. Alongside factual uncertainty, his recent research has included work on vicarious liability and on the nature of non-financial forms of loss. Andrew’s work has been published and presented internationally.

Joanna McCunn

Joanna McCunn is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Bristol. Her research focuses on the historical development of English law, and particularly on the history of legal language and documents. Joanna's work has been published in leading law journals, and she has presented at conferences in the UK and internationally.