Walker & Bromwich | In Conversation with Amal Khalaf

You are warmly invited to join us for a special event in conjunction with Walker & Bromwich’s current exhibition at Talbot Rice Gallery.

This event will take place at the Stuart MacLaren Room, Law School, Old College.

Artists Zoe Walker & Neil Bromwich will be in conversation and curator and artist Amal Khalaf. Walker & Bromwich / Searching for a Change of Consciousness assembles utopian, socialist and animist ideals to create spaces for communities to come together around issues of climate change and social justice.

This event is part of our 50th anniversary celebrations, marking five decades of exhibitions in Edinburgh, open to everyone and always free.

Walker & Bromwich have presented work at documenta-fifteen Germany, SEA + Triennale Jakarta, Thessaloniki Biennale, Greece, MCA Sydney; Tate Britain; V&A London; Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art UK, Glasgow International; Edinburgh Art Festival, ACCA, Melbourne; Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki. As well as expansive public commissions such as Encampment of Eternal Hope at COP26 and The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Serpent of Capitalism Roskilder Festival Denmark, Celestial Radio 2002-13 and the Workers Maypole for Great Exhibition of the North 2018.

Amal Khalaf is a curator and artist who serves as Director of Programmes at Cubitt (2019–present) and is also co-curating Sharjah Biennial 16 (February–June 2025), in the UAE and the Ghost 2568 (October - November 2025) in Bangkok, Thailand. Amal Khalaf served as the Civic Curator at the Serpentine Galleries (2009–2023), where she shaped the Civic programme and commissioned over 50 long term, collaborative projects in neighbourhoods across London. There and in other contexts she has developed residencies, exhibitions and collaborative research projects at the intersection of arts and social justice.