Freddie Phillipson: The Ulysses Project —16 June 2026

Tuesday 16 June
18.00–20.00
Doors open at 18.00; talk begins at 18.30
8 Smart’s Place, London, WC2B 5LW

Purchase tickets here.

For Bloomsday 2026—the single day on which James Joyce’s Ulysses takes place—Freddie Phillipson will present and discuss drawings of Dublin as experienced in the novel, taken from his twenty-year exploration of Joyce’s landmark text.

During the evening, Phillipson’s working and finished drawings will be displayed in the Drawing Matter archive and he will give a reading from the manuscript of his book, which explores the hidden backgrounds to the novel, reconstructs lost buildings that underpin its thoughts and themes, and asks: what is architecture?

Find out more about Freddie Phillipson’s Ulysses Project here; and read Peter Carl’s review of the exhibition of the drawings at the Irish Architectural Archive (2022) here.

A recording of the event will be published on Drawing Matter’s website.

Freddie Phillipson, drawing from The Ulysses Project. Courtesy of the author.
Freddie Phillipson, drawing from The Ulysses Project. Courtesy of the author.