My Life in Art
Wylie was amusingly interviewed by the actor James Norton who owns a painting by her. He was very good at giving her space to speak, reserving questions for when they were needed but not taking a dogged approach to ask them all. Wylie was open and witty. Jennifer Higgie, art critic and editor of Frieze, was also on the panel to add a commentary but I suspect also as backup in case Wylie, who is 92 had struggled, which she did not.
Wylie was guided to talk about a selection of her work which was being shown on screens which led her to muse on the titles of her works such as one called "Jumbo Meat Cleaver" because it was in the shape of a meat cleaver, the role of text in her work and the role of fame in her work.
There were some brilliant quotes from her, "The older you get the more memories you have. The more you have to work with", as we laughed at one of her pieces "The intention isn't to be funny" and "I don't know what perfect means anyway".
A particularly interesting snippet for a Charleston audience was that Wylie had slept in the house in the 1970s when a friend was house sitting for Angelica Bell, daughter of the house.
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