Join us for this in conversation event with artists whose creative practice explore complex family histories and gain insights into how their work explores the theme of belonging in different ways.

leon clowes is an artist researcher whose commissions include SPILL, Deptford X, Frieze and SUPERNORMAL festivals, Snape, NMC Recordings, Disability Arts Online and The British Music Collection. He is a writer and co-founding editorial board member for the Addiction Recovery Arts Network and for Performing Recovery, the network’s online magazine. As a scholarship-supported PhD student at London College of Music, leon conducted research into self-compassionate autoethnographic trauma-inspired performance practice. leon is also both a Multitrack Fellow and Open School East Associate Artist.

Claire Sunho Lee is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher based in London and Seoul. Lee’s practice engages with seeing various meanings within one “reality” by questioning acceptable norms. She sees “normal” as what one knows based on the perspective(s) they have rather than being defined in one way or another, thus having multiple meanings at the same time. She often thinks about the ways of “being” and how we exist in the world individually and collectively. Lee experiments with this idea through the concept of “control and surrender” in everyday life settings and suggests new perspectives to look at the familiar. Through the means of rules, logic, and algorithms, she examines psychological complications, human conditions, trauma, and more.

This session is part of (be)longing, a Bethlem Gallery project supporting artist Daniel Regan to explore the theme of belonging in the lead up to his solo exhibition at the gallery in spring 2026. Daniel is our Research Artist in Residence.

About Bethlem Gallery events
Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult. Concessions are available for SLaM service users, people over 60, students, people receiving ESA, people registered disabled and their carers. 

If you are unable to attend the event, please contact us to cancel your place. We often have a waiting list.