Leading Coventry-born artist Ben Sanderson returns to the city for a special free talk on Wednesday 26 February 2025.

As part of Warwick Arts Centre's major print exhibition The Future Is Today: Prints and the University of Warwick, 1965 to Now, two of the featured artists - Ben Sanderson and Ruth Ewan - discuss the role of printmaking in their wider practice, and the works on display, for Artists In Conversation.

Born and raised in Coventry, Ben Sanderson completed his Foundation in Art and Design at Coventry University before studying Fine Art at Falmouth. Now living and working in Cornwall, he has been commissioned to produce a four-plate photopolymer etching to commemorate the University of Warwick Art Collection’s 60th anniversary. For the limited edition work, titled Placing Place (2024), Sanderson created abstracted forms and hexagons which represent a patchwork quilt started by the artist’s mother when she was 18-years-old. The templates are made from old Christmas cards and envelopes from her part-time job at Dunlop.

Glasgow-based Ruth Ewan’s work addresses ideas of power and questions representations of time, rebellion and repression. Her The Future Is Today exhibition piece, Rocks, Morals, Quicksand (2020), is a series of eight A2 posters, pasted directly onto the gallery wall. The posters draw on found texts from a wide range of historic sources to reveal hidden and lesser-known narratives within the 18th century artist William Hogarth’s eight paintings, A Rake’s Progress (1735).

The Future Is Today (until Sunday 9 March 2025, admission free) is part of the University of Warwick's year long 60th anniversary celebrations. Featuring a wide variety of prints created over the last 60 years, among the artists included are Andy Warhol, Tracey Emin, Peter Blake, Sonia Boyce, David Hockey, Lubaina Himid, Damien Hirst, and Yinka Shonibare.

Artists In Conversation: Ruth Ewan and Ben Sanderson is on Wednesday 26 February, 6.30pm, at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry. Tickets are free. To reserve your place visit the website.