Coming Up
with
Sharyn Wortman
&
Kate Alderton
It's Our Final Event of 2026!
On Tuesday, Nov 17th we’ll be back at the The Devereux in London where we’ll finish a year of fantastic conversations with two fascinating speakers who will be taking us on a journey through their different worlds, both inside and out.
Grab a seat, it's going to be great!
Sharyn Wortman is an artist & writer whose practice examines trace: what’s left behind by a place, an encounter or a material.
On the final morning of a ship-based Arctic residency, Sharyn chalked a question she is still answering today: How can I begin to tell you?
Using drawings, prints and words from her travels, Sharyn's talk will follow that question as she moved from making work at the ship's rail, where the Arctic was safely out there, to drawing at the glacier's face, where the view out-there dissolved into here and she lost herself in the shifting materiality of landscape.
Taught to feel awe through the safety of distance, Sharyn considers that as the ice retreats and the polar bears come closer, there is now no place that is completely safe.
Exploring landscapes of a different sort, Kate Alderton is an artist & facilitator whose dream-led practice is profoundly shaped by anendophasia (the absence of inner monologue).
Navigating a mind where words are absent and images vivid, Kate is fascinated by the dialogue that happens where waking and dreaming meet and she'll show how this inspires deep listening, a practice she uses to capture these thoughts and translate them into sound, collage and performance.
Kate will also tell us about her work in Social Dreaming with its quieter, ‘edge-of-mind’ thinking that offers new ways to address our world’s current challenges, and how one dream in particular led a collective of artists & scientists on a journey across Europe to a hidden temple in an Italian mountain, and the creation of an on-going, site-specific work of art.
Tickbird&Rhino evenings are all about the conversations that happen when we meet new people and hear their stories. Our events are always welcoming and never less than inspiring so come along and join in, it promises to be a fantastic, thought-provoking night.
Tue 17 November
The Devereux
20 Devereux Court
London WC2R 3JJ
Sharyn Wortman is a London-based artist who works in large-scale charcoal drawing, printmaking and writing. After an MA at the Royal College of Art (2023), she joined the Body and Place residency in the Cotswolds. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and has been named as one of The Observer's Future 500.
In 2025 she sailed with the Arctic Circle residency in Svalbard. A recent Arts Council England grant funded experimental drawings, an artist’s book hand-set at Two Cents Press, Italy, and the text for We Were Witness, a choral piece which premiered in Toronto in 2026.
web: sharynwortman.com
insta: @sharynwortman
Kate Alderton creates work in theatre, sound art, site-specific installation, collage, and collective dreaming sessions. She trained in theatre studies at LAMDA, and more recently with Complicité and Improbable. She has studied dream work at Pacifica Graduate Institute, The Centre for Social Dreaming, and Anima Mundi School.
As well as a having a background in UK touring theatre, her work has been exhibited, published and performed at Indelible Magazine 2026, WIA Gallery 2025, IAFDS Art Exhibition 2023/2025 Parastrophe Surrealist magazine 2022-2026 , Surrealpool publication 2024, Saatchi Gallery, SXSW. Dreamwork/ Art collaborations include Dream Palace, The Centre for Climate Psychology, The Cockpit Theatre, IMAGINE! Festival, Anima Mundi School, Damanhur Community, The Mycelium.
web: katealderton.co.uk
insta: @aldertonkate
above image - Kate Alderton
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