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This recording was taken from a live event hosted at Towner on 12 June 2025. Listen to a conversation between Simon Grant, curator of the Paule Vézelay Living Lines exhibition at Towner, and Sarah Wilson, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Courtauld, who met Vézelay and wrote one of her earliest articles on her.

Simon Grant is a curator, writer and editor. He is curator of the UK touring retrospective of Paule Vézelay: Living Lines. His most recent curatorial projects include Bona de Mandiargues, Alison Jacques Gallery, London (2025), A Vanished Wholeness, Modern Art, Paris (2025) and Albert Tucker: Spirit Worlds and Dreamscapes, Heide Museum of Art, Melbourne (2025). He is also co-founder/editor of Picpus magazine.

Sarah Wilson is Professor of the History of Modern and Contemporary art at The Courtauld, University of London. Among her earliest articles was a Paule Vézelay review and she has published on over thirty known and unknown women artists.

She was principal curator of Paris , Capital of the Arts, 1900-1968 (Royal Academy London, Guggenheim Bilbao, 2002-3) and Pierre Klossowski, Whitechapel Art Gallery, 2006, touring to Cologne and Paris. A close relationship with the Centre Georges Pompidou, has extended throughout her career. Sarah Wilson was appointed Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres awarded by the French government for services to French culture in 1997. In 2015 she was a curator of the 1st Asian Biennale / 5th Guangzhou Triennale at the Guangdong Museum of Art, and was awarded the AICA prize for her distinguished contribution to art criticism. Books include The Visual World of French Theory; Figurations, 2010, French 2018) and Picasso / Marx and socialist realism in France, 2013.