Join ArtReview and Ursula magazine for ‘Off the Record,’ a series of informal talks in the Wine Bar at the Farm Shop in London’s Mayfair.

Held on the first Tuesday of every month from April to July 2025, these intimate and relaxed conversations bring together artists, thinkers and creatives to give an insight into their inspirations, process and evolution of ideas.⁠ The series is a celebration of traditional conviviality, to be experienced live in a relaxed wine bar setting.

The second talk in the series will be with artists George Rouy and Es Devlin.

• 6.30 pm: Welcome drink

• 7 pm: Talk

Tickets cost £20 per person, which includes a welcome drink, as well as a copy of ArtReview and Ursula magazines. Please note seats will be allocated on a first come, first serve basis.

You may add the following options to your ticket order:

• £20: Cheese or charcuterie platter (suitable for one person)

Further food and wine options will be available from the à la carte menu on the night.

About George Rouy
British artist George Rouy’s dynamic and signature use of the human figure, vexed with desire, alienation and crisis, speaks to the extremities of our time; portraits of identity in a globalized and technologically driven 21st Century. Focused on the relationship between interior landscapes and the body in motion, Rouy’s work presents us with a new language confronting the human body with bold and subversive energy, transformation and flux. Shapeshifting from unified, ambient subjects made strange and alluring through their sparse and enduring symbolism, to fever dreams of androgynous and gestural forms, charged with lurid flashes of pigment and passages of abstraction, Rouy’s work brings to sharp focus recurring themes: the face as a mask, the individual as a mirror, the self as a shadow.

About Es Devlin
British artist and designer Es Devlin views an audience as a temporary society and invites public participation in communal choral works. Her practice ranges from public sculptures and illuminated installations at the Victoria & Albert Museum, Serpentine Galleries, Imperial War Museum, Somerset House, outside the Tate Modern, Trafalgar Square and the Lincoln Center, to kinetic stage designs at the Royal Opera House, National Theatre and Metropolitan Opera, as well as Olympic Ceremonies, Super-Bowl half-time shows and monumental stage sculptures for large-scale stadium concerts. Devlin is a fellow of the Royal Academy of Music, a recipient of the Eugene McDermott Award for the Arts at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and visiting professor at the University of Oxford.

About Farm Shop Mayfair and Wine Bar
Step downstairs into a hidden space beneath Farm Shop Mayfair and find the Wine Bar. Enjoy a glass, carafe or bottle of wine from around the world with an international and ever-changing wine list, featuring 150 bin wines. You can also find wine closer to home, created from grapes grown on Farm Shop’s estate in Bruton. Bringing a taste of Somerset to your table, the menu centers on fresh and seasonal ingredients, with produce sourced from Durslade Farm, the 1,000-acre estate in Somerset, and selected farmers with a shared passion for quality and sustainability.

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Photography will take place at this event for use on the Hauser & Wirth, ArtReview and Farm Shop websites, social media channels and in other marketing materials.