Academic Activities 2015–2016

Research Lunches 2015

13 November Brigid Von Preussen (Columbia University) Heads and Hands: Josiah Wedgwood’s Jasper Portrait Medallions

20 November Hana Leaper (Postdoctoral Fellow, Paul Mellon Centre) Statements of Artistic Identity in Vanessa Bell’s Self-Portraits

27 November Carla van de Puttelaar (Utrecht University) The Scougall Family, Scottish Portraiture of the Restoration Period

Research Seminars 2015

25 November Sandy Nairne (Former Director of the National Gallery) New Public Portraits – Icons and Idols at the National Portrait Gallery

2 December Martin Myrone (Tate) Portrait and Autograph: Replication, Authenticity and the Authority of the Image in the Work of H. P. Briggs (1792–1844)

16 December Karen Hearn (University College London) The National and Professional Identities of Cornelius Johnson (1593–1661)

Conference 2015

The Painting Room: The Artist’s Studio in Eighteenth-Century Britain

29–30 October 2015, Paul Mellon Centre and Gainsborough’s House

Giles Waterfield (Attingham Trust) The Painting Room: a Sketch

Mark Bills (Gainsborough’s House) The Chamber of Genius: Depictions of the Painting Room in Satire

Susan Sloman (Independent Scholar) ‘Like Arcadia’: Gainsborough's Painting Rooms

Matthew Craske (Oxford Brookes University) Wright of Derby’s Studio Practice

Karen Fielder (Portsmouth University) Where the ‘Pencil Gave and Heighten’d Graces’: the Social Life of the Painting Room

Peter Moore (Gainsborough’s House) Prints and Practice in Gainsborough’s Studio

Jane Munro (Fitzwilliam Museum) The Lay Figure: an ‘artful implement’ (Gerard de Lairesse)

Jonathan Yarker (Lowell Libson Ltd) The Role of Old Masters in the Eighteenth-Century Studio: the Example of Thomas Hudson

Mark Bills (Gainsborough’s House) Reviving an Artist’s Birthplace: A Capital Project for Gainsborough’s House

Rica Jones (Independent Scholar) Studio Practice and the Training of Painters: a Technical and Contextual Study of the Young Gainsborough

Hannah Williams (Queen Mary, University of London) Living in the Louvre: the Artist’s Studio in 18th-Century Paris

Edwina Ehrman (Victoria and Albert Museum) Costume in the Studio

Spike Bucklow (Hamilton Kerr Institute) Gainsborough's Materials with Reference to the Paints Cabinet at Gainsborough’s House

Kristina Mandy (Hamilton Kerr Institute) Thomas Gainsborough’s Copyist

George Shaw (Artist) Reflections on the Painting Room/Artist’s Studio

Conference 2015

Artists’ Film in Britain: From 1990 to today 5–7 November 2015, Whitechapel Gallery

Iwona Blazwick (Director, Whitechapel Gallery) Artists Moving Image work in Britain: A case study

Maeve Connolly (Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Lecturer in Film Studies) Mined and Mediated Bodies: Acting in Artists’ Film

Lucy Reynolds (Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, Lecturer, Artist and Curator) Figure and Ground: En-gendering Formal Film

Film and video on TV

Colin Perry, Gary Thomas, Portland Green, Jonathan Patkowski. Chaired by Rose Cupitt (Senior Manager, Film London)

Performing identities

Laura Castagnini, Ayanna Dozier, Rachel Garfield, Diana Smith Chaired by Lucy Reynolds

Modernism and Historiography

Inga Fraser, Alessandra Ferrini, Isabelle Wallace. Chaired by Erika Balsom

Presentations by artists George Barber, Nina Danino, Lindsay Seers, Smadar Dreyfus. Chaired by Gareth Evans (Adjunct Film Curator, Whitechapel Gallery)

Keynote by TJ Demos (Professor, History of Art and Visual Culture, University of California, Santa Cruz)

James Boaden (Department of History of Art, University of York)

Archives and Anachronisms in Queer Artists’ Moving Image

Shanay Jhaveri (Writer and Curator) On Sonia Khurana

Panel discussion with TJ Demos, James Boaden, Shanay Jhaveri. Chaired by Michele Pierson

In conversation between Ben Cook (Director LUX), Omar Kholeif and Sarah Perks (Artistic Director, HOME, Manchester)

‘Exhibition Histories and Curatorial Practice’

Presentations by Steven Cairns, Michael Maziere, Duncan Reekie, Andrew Vallance

Presentations by artist and theorist

Kodwo Eshun and critic and curator

Ed Halter Followed by panel discussion chaired by Erika Balsom

Evening Lecture 2015

11 November Paul Spencer-Longhurst (Paul Mellon Centre) Reflections on Richard Wilson Online

Conference 2015

Walter Sickert: The Document and the Documentary

4 December 2015, Paul Mellon Centre

Anna Gruetzner Robins (University of Reading) Sickert, Vauxcelles and the Colour of London

Carol Mavor (University of Manchester) Suspension of Disbelief: Walter Sickert’s A Dead Hare and Other Rabbits Out of Breath

Martin Hammer (University of Kent) The Silent Kingdom of Paint: Sickert and Hopper

David Peters Corbett (Sainsbury Institute of Art, University of East Anglia) Memory and Decreation: George Bellows and Walter Sickert to 1909

Emily Talbot (University of Michigan) The Perils of Painting Like a Camera: Walter Sickert’s Modern Realism in Painting

Sam Rose (University of Cambridge) Sickert’s Indeterminacy

William Rough (University of St Andrews) Cribbing from Shakespeare: Sickert in the 1930s

Merlin Seller (University of East Anglia) Jack and Jill: The Moving Image Halted

Research Lunches 2016

15 January Rachel Smith (Independent Scholar) Cross Paths and Currents: Cubist and Constructive work in wartime St Ives

5 February Allison Ksiazkiewicz (Postdoctoral Fellow, Paul Mellon Centre) Primitive forms and prospects: geological landscapes in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain

19 February William Bainbridge (Postdoctoral Fellow, Paul Mellon Centre) Peaks and Pencils: Victorian Illustrations and Paintings of the Dolomite Mountains

26 February Helena Bonnett (Royal College of Art and Tate) and Jonathan Law (University of Kent) Screening and discussion of ‘Trewyn Studio’, a new film on Barbara Hepworth’s studio-museum

11 March Caroline Fuchs (Curatorial Fellow at the Bavarian State Painting Collections) With dots and rays: Autochrome photography and artistic expression in Britain

20 May James Legard (National Gallery) Ambitious Architecture: Rethinking the Meanings of Blenheim Palace

27 May Gwen Yarker (Independent Curator) Inquisitive Eyes: Recovering a Lost Chapter in British Art

10 June Katherine Field (Philip de László Catalogue Raisonné team) Philip Alexius de László: A Catalogue Raisonné in Progress

24 June Jessica Feather (Brian Allen Fellow, Paul Mellon Centre) Collecting watercolours: questions of landscape and Englishness, c.1890–1914

Research Seminars 2016

13 January Adrian Forty (Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL) Was Concrete Modern?

10 February Stephen Daniels (University of Nottingham) Surveying the City: John Britton’s ‘London Topography’, 1820–1840

24 February Ian Campbell (Senior Fellow, Paul Mellon Centre) Renaissances (and Baroque?) in Scottish architecture

9 March Elizabeth Darling (Oxford Brookes University) The Stuff of Radio: Material and Spatial Cultures of Sound in inter-war England

4 May Alixe Bovey (Courtauld Institute of Art) Manufacturing Giants: A Material History of Gogmagog and Corineus from the 15th century to the present

18 May Douglas Fordham (University of Virginia) Aquatint Empires

15 June Daniella Zalcman, Paul Rousseau, James Boaden, Richard Hornsey and Katharina Guenther Multiple meanings: the photographic double exposure in the work of John Deakin, Francis Bacon and Daniella Zalcman (A panel discussion)

29 June Natasha Eaton (Research Fellow, The Leverhulme Trust) The Conditional Image? Art and labour in India and the Indian Ocean, 1800–1947

Scholars’ Morning 2016

Jean-Etienne Liotard: Master of Truth

14 January 2016, Royal Academy of Arts

Speakers: MaryAnne Stevens, Christopher Baker, Duncan Bull, Clarissa Campbell-Orr, William Hauptman, Martin Postle

Conferences 2016

Rowlandson and After: Rethinking Graphic Satire

22 January 2016, Paul Mellon Centre and The Queens Gallery

Kate Grandjouan (Independent Scholar)

Thomas Rowlandson in the 1780s: The double professional route into comic art

Danielle Thom (Victoria and Albert Museum) Conspicuous Erections: Classical Sculpture and Rowlandson's Erotica

Nicholas Knowles (Independent Scholar) Pantomime Elephants, Spouters & Men Milliners: Rowlandson and the Theatre

Alison O’Byrne (University of York)

Reimagining the Art of Walking in London: Graphic Satire and the Streets in the Early Nineteenth Century

Carly Hegenbarth (Teaching Fellow, University of Birmingham) After Rowlandson: Catholic Emancipation and British Print Cultures, 1827

Christina Smylitopoulos (University of Guelph) Caricaturing Caricature: A Case of Study of Tegg, Cruikshank and Goya

Elenor Ling (The Fitzwilliam Museum)‘…a militant, but never a mercenary’: Ronald Searle and the History of Graphic Satire

David Rayson (Royal College of Art) Keynote Speaker

Introduction to High Spirits: The Comic Art of Thomas Rowlandson exhibition by Kate Heard (Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings at Royal Collection Trust)

Exhibiting Contemporary Art in Post-War Britain 1945–60

28–29 January 2016, Tate Britain

David Mellor ‘An Art of Living’: Exhibiting across the ‘Long Front of Culture’ in Spaces of Art and Profane Spectacle

Martin Hammer Food for artists

Jonathan Black (Senior Research Fellow in History of Art, Kingston University) Flying the Flag for the Figurative: The Beaux Art Gallery and the Promotion of the Kitchen Sink and Other Modes of 1950’s Realism

Alexander Massouras (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford) Exhibiting the Young

Eleanor Clayton Living Today: Radical Exhibition Design in Wakefield, 1959

Andrew Stephenson (University of East London) – Keynote Speaker – The Fruits of our Policies: Art Exhibitions and state arts patronage in a Transitional Age, 1945–1959

Helen Leahy Exhibiting ‘Picasso’, 1960

James Finch (University of Kent and PhD candidate, Tate) Perpetuating the Transient: Giacometti's 1955 Arts Council exhibition

Simon Pierse (Senior Lecturer, Aberystwyth University) Australia the new Greece: Sidney Nolan’s 1957 exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery

Clare Freestone Ida Kar, artistphotographer and Gallery One

Katherine Aspinall (Independent Scholar) Drawing Done with Intellectual Care: David Sylvester's Drawing Exhibitions and the Shaping of the Creative Individual

Alexandra Tommasini and Natalia Naish (Archivists, The Bridget Riley Art Foundation) The Graven Image (1959): Printmaking in Britain on the Threshold of the New

Lisa Tickner – Keynote Speaker – 1964: ‘A Big Year in Modern Art’

Animating the Georgian London Town House

17 March 2016, National Gallery

Desmond Shawe-Taylor – Keynote Speaker – Picture Displays at Carlton House

Matthew Jenkins and Charlotte Newman London in Pieces: Building Biographies in Georgian Mayfair

Neil Bingham The Regency Transformation of Burlington House, Piccadilly, documented through the architectural drawings of Samuel Ware

Jeremy Howard New Light on Norfolk House: The Decoration and furnishing of Norfolk House for the 9th Duke and Duchess of Norfolk

Anne Nellis Richter Glitter and Fashion in the ‘Louvre of London’: Animating Cleveland House

Peter Nelson Lindfield London’s Gothic Pineapple: 18 Arlington Street

Adriano Aymonino and Manolo Guerci – Keynote Speakers - London’s greatest mansion in the Strand: Northumberland House, the Urban Palace of the 1st Duke and Duchess of Northumberland

Joseph Friedman Town and Country: patterns of aristocratic collecting in Georgian England

Susannah Brooke The display and reception of private picture collections in London town houses, 1780-1830

Mark Purcell The town house library

Donato Esposito Artist in Residence: Joshua Reynolds at 47 Leicester Fields

Helen McCormack Animating Anatomy: 16 Great Windmill Street Westminster

Transforming Topography

6 May 2016, The British Library

Daniel Maudlin (University of Plymouth)

A Narrow View of Nature: the natural world experienced through early modern itineraries, travel maps and inns

Kelly Presutti (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Louis Garneray and Topographical Painting as Border Control

Matthew Sangster (University of Birmingham) Accumulating London

Jenny Gaschke (Fine Art Curator, Bristol Museum and Art Gallery)

‘Available for useful purposes’: The Braikenridge Collection of Topographical Drawings in Bristol

Mikael Ahlund (Museum Gustavianum, Uppsala University Museum) Topography, Iron-Making and National Identity: A British-Swedish Comparison

Amy Concannon (University of Nottingham and Assistant Curator, British Art 1790–1850, Tate Britain) A Place for the ‘full exercise of the intellectual powers of a topographical writer’: Lambeth’s topographical image, c.1800–50

‘Topography Now’: Position papers and round-table discussion with Adrian Edwards (Head of Printed Heritage Collections, British Library), Jane Roberts (formerly Royal Collection, Windsor Castle), Stephen Daniels (University of Nottingham), John Barrell (Queen Mary, University of London) and Stephen Bann (University of Bristol)

Scholars’ Morning 2016

Light, Time, Legacy: Francis Towne’s Watercolours of Rome

9 June 2016, The British Museum and Paul Mellon Centre

Speakers: Richard Stephens, Jessica Feather, Timothy Wilcox

Conference 2016

Showing, Telling, Seeing: Exhibiting South Asia in Britain

30 June–1 July 2016, Paul Mellon Centre

Curatorial panel discussion: Deepak Ananth (Art Historian), Iwona Blazwick (Whitechapel Gallery), David Elliott (Curator and Writer), Geeta Kapur (Critic and Curator), Sharmini Pereira (Independent Curator) – moderated by Hammad Nasar (Asia Art Achive)

Susan Bean (formerly Peabody Essex Museum) Diverging Paths: Two Sculptors and their Reception at the Turn of the 20th Century

Sria Chatterjee (Princeton University) The politics of knowing, making and showing: the Festival of India in Britain and some afterlives

Holly Shaffer (Dartmouth College) Museum Bhavan

Lotte Hoek (Edinburgh University) and Sanjukta Sunderason (Leiden University) Journeying through Modernism: Travels and Transits of East Pakistani Artists in Early-1950s London

Writing about exhibitions panel discussion: Emilia Terracciano (Oxford University), Zehra Jumabhoy (Courtauld Institute of Art) and Shezad Dawood (Artist/FilmMaker) – moderated by Lucy Steeds (University of the Arts London)

Brinda Kumar (Cornell University) The Other Burlington Exhibition

Hilary Floe (University of Oxford) Myth and Reality: Oxford and India, 1982

Naiza Khan (Artist) and Karin Zitzewitz (Michigan State University) Nodal Connections: Triangle Network, Gasworks, and South Asian Artists in the UK

Eva Bentcheva (School of Oriental and African Studies London) Priceless Encounters, Costly Legacies: Motiroti’s Priceless (2007) as Contemporary Inquiry into Colonial Displays

Researching the Exhibition: Experience and event (panel discussion): Saloni Mathur, Carmen Julia (Spike Island, Bristol) and Sarah Turner (Paul Mellon Centre) – moderated by Claire Wintle (University of Brighton)

Alice Correia (University of Salford) South Asian Women Artists in Britain and the Politics of Articulation

Shanay Jhaveri Lionel Wendt

Respondents: Sabih Ahmed (Asia Art Archive), Nima Poovaya-Smith (Alchemy Anew), Daniel Rycroft (University of East Anglia), Alnoor Mitha (Manchester Metropolitan University), Leon Wainwright (The Open University)