Horatio Clare in conversation with Antony Penrose

As part of the Collectiva Annual Exhibition, we invite you to join us for an interesting evening of conversation between bestselling Welsh author, Horatio Clare, and Antony Penrose, Sussex farmer and director of the Lee Miller Archive and Penrose Collection based locally at Farley Farmhouse. These two fascinating people will touch on various areas covered in Horatio's books - politics, technology, globalisation and mental health, and how such shifting sands have affected traditional industries like farming, which forms a huge part of the fabric of our lives here in Sussex.

As a versatile author across several genres though mainly known as a travel writer of lyrically descriptive gifts, Horatio Clare admits to having ‘a love-hate relationship with borders’, a fascination with frontiers that are ‘rich in wildlife – which thrives where people aren’t or can’t go – and stories, of course’. There’s also a significant aside in his memoir Truant:…