Academic Activities

July 2019–June 2020

3–6 July 2019

Bedford Square Festival

Art, architecture and cultural festival developed by the Paul Mellon Centre with partner organisations Yale University Press, the Architectural Association, Sotheby’s Institute and the New College of the Humanities.

30 September–1 October 2019

Homework: Artists’ Studio Homes and their Afterlives in Britain and the United States

An international conference organised and sponsored by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, the Henry Moore Foundation, Historic Artists’ Homes and Studios (HAHS), with underwriting support from the Terra Foundation for American Art.

Convened by Hannah Higham (Henry Moore Foundation), Valerie Balint (HAHS) and Sarah Victoria Turner (PMC)

Day 1:

Sarah Victoria Turner (PMC), Valerie Balint (HAHS) and Hannah Higham (Henry Moore Foundation), ‘Welcome and Introduction’

Elizabeth Prettejohn (University of York), ‘Keynote Paper’ with Q&A, introduced by Valerie Balint

Mary Cronin (Brandywine River Museum of Art), ‘Keeping Visitors Engaged (on a budget) at the N. C. Wyeth and Andrew Wyeth Studios’

Helena Bonett (Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden), ‘Diversifying Knowledge and Value within the Studio–museum: A Methodological Case Study of the Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden’

Laura Esparza (City of Austin’s Parks and Recreation Department), ‘The Life, Work, and Legacy of Elisabet Ney: An Artist for OUR Times’

Chaired by Martin Postle

Julia Griffin (Central Saint Martins (UAL) & William Morris Gallery), ‘Between History, Memorialisation and Cultural Forgetting: Recovering the “Lost” History of Kelmscott Manor as D. G. Rossetti’s Unconventional Studio House (1871–1874/1880s–2019)’

Kate Sunderlin (Buford House), ‘The Studio of Edward V. Valentine and its Place in Art History’

Andrew Stephenson (Independent), ‘The Legacies of Francis Bacon’s 7 Reece Mews Studio-Home’

Chaired by Mark Hallett

Alison Oram (Leeds Beckett University), ‘Queer Artists: Their Places and Place in English National Heritage’

Victoria Munro (Alice Austen House), ‘Queering Memory and the Alice Austen House’

Chaired by Lisa Stone

Louise Campbell (University of Warwick), ‘Keynote Paper’ with Q&A, introduced by Sarah Victoria Turner

Donna Hassler (Chesterwood), ‘Closing Remarks’

Day 2:

Darren Clarke (Charleston Trust), ‘As if They’ve Just Left the Room: Maintaining Intimacy and Authenticity at Charleston Farmhouse’

Elizabeth Jacks (Thomas Cole National Historic Site), ‘Creating an Authentic Interaction with Thomas Cole: A Case Study’

Ruxandra Bageac (John F. Peto Studio Museum), ‘Educating with Aging Objects at the John F. Peto Studio Museum’

Chaired by Sarah Victoria Turner

Sean Ulmer (Cedar Rapids Museum of Art), ‘The Grant Wood Studio: Birthplace of American Gothic’

Tasmin Wimhurst (David Parr House), ‘Case Study of the David Parr House: “Life and Art in a Workers Home”’

Amy Kurtz Lansing (Florence Griswold Museum), ‘Art, Environment, and Authenticity on the Robert F. Schumann Artists’ Trail at the Florence Griswold Museum’

Chaired by Valerie Balint

Hannah Higham (Henry Moore Foundation), ‘Introduction to Henry Moore House and Grounds’

Cicely Robinson and Molly Skinner (Artist Studio Museum Network Team), ‘Presentation’

Autumn Research Seminar Series 2019

2 October Alexandra Kokoli, ‘Towards a Virtual Feminist Museum of Greenham Common’

16 October David Kastan, ‘Does Colour Have a History?’

27 November Mark Hallett, ‘The Newspaper Man: Michael Andrews and the Art of Painted Collage’

30 October 2019

Book Launch: Artists’ Moving Image in Britain Since 1989

Speakers: Erika Balsom (Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, King’s College London), Lucy Reynolds (Senior Lecturer in the School of Arts, University of Westminster) and Sarah Perks (Professor of Visual Art at Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University)

Chaired by Chris McCormack

5 October 2019

Paul Mellon Centre x Art UK x Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon Workshop held at the Paul Mellon Centre.

Sarah Victoria Turner (PMC) and Lydia Figes (Art UK), ‘Welcome and Introduction’

Jacqueline Mabey (co-founder of Art+Feminism), ‘Introduction and How to Edit a Wikipedia Entry’

Autumn Research Lunch Series 2019

11 October Edwin Coomasaru, ‘Brexit and the Occult: Gendered Ghosts of Empire’

25 October Jennifer Dudley, ‘The Hayward Annual 1978: A Case Study in Combating Male “Artocracy”’

8 November Michael Clegg, ‘Merlyn Evans’ Vertical Suite in Black (1957) and the Trajectory of “Primitivism” in British Art from Vorticism to the Independent Group’

22 November Julie Lageyre, ‘Narrating British Art: Robert de la Sizeranne’s Use of Insularity’

6 December Samantha Niederman, ‘“A Liberation of Spirit”: Transatlantic Seascapes by Winifred Nicholson and John Marin’

Fellows Lunches 2019

15 October Shirlynn Sham, ‘“The Eighth Wonder of the World”: Science and Sublimity in Marc and Isambard Brunel’s Thames Tunnel Project’

29 October Hannah Kahng, ‘Cut to Black: Filmic Disidentifications in the Work of Lis Rhodes’

12 November Avigail Moss, ‘Against All Risks: Insuring Art in the Nineteenth Century’

16 October 2019

Drawing Room Display: Modern Art and Publishing between 1935 and 1955

Video Tour via Facebook Live with Sarah Victoria Turner (PMC)

5 November 2019

Hogarth’s Moral Geography

Workshop held at the Paul Mellon Centre, co-organised by the Paul Mellon Centre and Sir John Soane’s Museum.

Session 1:

Mark Hallett (PMC), ‘Welcome and Introduction’

Meredith Gamer (Columbia University), ‘Meat and Bones: Topographies of Violence in Hogarth’s Four Stages of Cruelty’

Session 2: Chaired by Martin Postle (PMC)

William K. S. Aslet (University of Cambridge), ‘Hogarth and Modern Architecture’

Gillian Williamson (Birkbeck, University of London), ‘Lodging the Garret Poet: Before and After Hogarth’

Stacey Sloboda (University of Massachusetts), ‘The Four Times of Day in St. Martin’s Lane’

Session 3: Chaired by Bruce Boucher (Sir John Soane’s Museum)

Cristina S. Martinez (University of Ottawa), ‘Towards a Topography of Law in Hogarth’s Modern Moral Subjects’

Kate Grandjouan (Courtauld Institute of Art/New College of the Humanities), ‘Moral Geography in Marriage à la Mode: Hogarth’s Dirty French’

David Bindman (University College London, Curator of Hogarth: Place and Progress), Frédéric Ogée (Université Paris Diderot) and Christine Riding (National Gallery), ‘Final Discussion’

14 November 2019

British Art Studies, Issue 13: London, Asia, Exhibitions, Histories: Launch Event

Celebration for the launch of the British Art Studies special issue, ‘London, Asia, Exhibitions, Histories’.

Hammad Nasar and Sarah Victoria Turner, ‘Overview’

Ming Tiampo (Carleton University, Ottawa and London, Asia Research Award holder), Annie Jael Kwan (Asia Art Activism) and Victoria Walsh (Royal College of Art), ‘Panel Discussion’

28–29 November 2019

William Blake and the Idea of the Artist

A conference co-organised by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and Tate Britain.

Day 1 at Tate Britain:

Laura Grace Ford, ‘Presentation’

Laura Grace Ford and Sarah Victoria Turner, ‘In Conversation’

‘Audience Q&A’, Chaired by Sarah Victoria Turner (PMC)

Day 2 at the Paul Mellon Centre:

Session 1: Chaired by Mark Hallett (PMC)

Silvia Riccardi (University of Freiburg), ‘“What the hand, dare sieze the fire?” William Blake’s MediaTranscending Journey’

Todd Dearing (Flinders University), ‘Etching Out Blake’s Mythological Artist in Contemporary Times’

Session 2: Chaired by Martin Postle (PMC)

Marte Stinis (University of York), ‘Blake, Swinburne, and Art for Art’s Sake’

Colin Trodd (University of Manchester), ‘Modern Culture and The Blake Spectrum’

Jason Whittaker (University of Lincoln), ‘The Eye Altering Alters All: Blake and the Psychology of Reception in Contemporary Visual Art’

Martin Myrone (Tate), Amy Concannon (Tate), Dave Beech (UAL) and Laura Grace Ford, ‘Panel Discussion’

Luca George (Royal College of Art), ‘Performance’

3 December 2019

Modern Art and Publishing between 1935 and 1955

Workshop held at the Paul Mellon Centre.

Sarah Victoria Turner (PMC), ‘Welcome and Introduction’

Session 1: Landscapes of Art Publishing

Chaired by Mark Hallett (PMC)

Valerie Holman (Independent), ‘Art Publishing: A Changing Landscape?’

Anna Nyburg (Imperial College, London), ‘Émigrés in Art Publishing’

Session 2: Journal Cultures

Chaired by Rachel Rose Smith (Independent)

Chris Mourant (University of Birmingham), ‘“No crystallised opinion”: British Periodicals and Modern Art Before 1914’

Caroline Maclean (Independent), ‘“A circus rider with his feet planted astride two horses”: The Battle between Abstraction and Surrealism in Unit One and Axis’

Clare Nadal (University of Huddersfield/ The Hepworth Wakefield), ‘Barbara Hepworth in British Journal and Print Culture, 1935–1950’

Session 3: Making and Breaking Formats

Chaired by Tom Powell (PMC)

Lucy Myers (Lund Humphries), ‘Promoting Modern Art and Design: The Development of Lund Humphries’ PostWar Publishing on Contemporary Artists’

Alan Powers (University of Kent/London School of Architecture), ‘Cropping and Bleeding: Modernism and Tradition in Book and Magazine Design’

11 December 2019

PMC Book Night

Mark Hallett, ‘Introduction to PMC Publishing’

Authors:

Matthew Dimmock, Elizabethan Globalism: England, China and the Rainbow Portrait

Marcia Pointon, Hanging the Head: Portraiture and Social Formation in Eighteenth-Century England

Sarah Thomas, Witnessing Slavery: Art and Travel in the Age of Abolition

Erika Balsom, Artists’ Moving Image in Britain Since 1989

Paul Mellon Centre 50th Anniversary Lecture Series, 2020

15 January David H. Solkin, ‘British Landscape Art of the Long Eighteenth Century: Reflections on a Contested Field’

29 January Charles Saumarez Smith, ‘50 Years of British Art in Museums’

12 February Griselda Pollock, ‘The Victorian Book I Never Wrote, or Why I Never Became a Specialist on British Art’

26 February Steven Brindle, ‘Architectural History after Summerson’

17 January 2020

George Stubbs: ‘all done from Nature’ A conference co-organised by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, exploring the artistic achievement and legacy of George Stubbs in the context of the major monographic exhibition at MK Gallery.

Anthony Spira (MK Gallery), ‘Welcome and Introduction’

Session 1: Chaired by Martin Postle (PMC)

Alison Wright (Royal Holloway, University of London), ‘Everyone but Stubbs: Re-examining the Field of Georgian Animal Painting’

Helen McCormack (Glasgow School of Art), ‘Animalia, Autopsia, Natura: George Stubbs’s The Moose, 1770’

Marcus Coates (Artist), ‘Comparative Anatomies’

Session 2: Chaired by Lea van der Vinde (Mauritshuis)

Anthony Mould (Art Dealer), ‘George Stubbs and Portraiture; the ‘lacuna’ Years from c.1744 to c.1758’

Oliver Cox (University of Oxford), ‘The Anatomy of a Sporting Art Collection: The Many Lives of Stubbs’s Lord Torrington’s Hunt Servants setting out from Southill (c.1767)’

David Pullins (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York), ‘Stubbs’s Figures and Grounds, Invitations to Collaborative Painting’

Poetry readings by Roger Robinson (Writer), ‘Stubbs’s Whistlejacket’, ‘Hambletonian, Rubbing Down’

Spring Research Lunch Series 2020

24 January Eva Bentcheva ‘Performing Transnationalisms in the Works of Rasheed Araeen, Prafulla Mohanti and Sutapa Biswas’

31 January Martina Droth and Paul Messier, ‘Bill Brandt & Henry Moore: Photography in Four Dimensions’

7 February Thomas Hughes, ‘Surface, Depth and Form: John Ruskin’s “The Nature of Gothic”’

21 February Isabelle Mooney, ‘Sculpting a Post-War Future: The Bombsite in Art School Education’

6 March Christian Berger, ‘Keith Arnatt’s Conceptualist Critique of Conceptual Art’

Spring Fellows Lunch Series 2020

10 March Tara Contractor, ‘Pre-Raphaelite Gold’

13–14 March 2020

Radical Materialities: Linder and Companion Histories

A conference hosted by Kettle’s Yard and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art on the work of British artist Linder.

Day 1 at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge:

Andrew Nairne and Amy Tobin (Kettle’s Yard), ‘Welcome and Introduction’

Dawn Ades (University of Essex) and Linder, ‘In Conversation’

Session 1: Chaired by James Boaden (University of York)

Yuval Etgar (Luxembourg & Dayan, London & University of Oxford), ‘Under Covers: Feminist Strategies in Artists’ Magazines of the late 1970s in Britain and the USA’

Maria Elena Buszek (University of Colorado Denver), ‘Danger Came Smiling: Linder Sterling and Punk Feminism’

Session 2: Chaired by Alyce Mahon (University of Cambridge)

Francis Summers (University of Creative Arts, Rochester), ‘Profanation in the Field of Vision: Linder’s Food Porn’

Naomi Polonsky (Curator and Arts Writer), ‘Linder and Lust: The Aesthetics & Erotics of Pornography in Linder’s Photomontages’

Day 2 at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge:

Session 3: Chaired by Anna Reid (PMC)

Adele Patrick (Glasgow Women’s Library), ‘Glamorous Excess and the Charms of Linderism: Episodes of Critical, Creative and Curatorial Clairvoyance’

Mark Bradley (University of Nottingham), ‘Linder, Layers and the “Lower Senses”: Classical Bodies, Sensation and Sensibilities in Linder Sterling’s Photomontage’

Session 4: Chaired by Amy Tobin (Kettle’s Yard)

Paul Clinton (Writer, Curator and Editor), ‘Rough Around the Edges: Linder On Class and Taste’

Adrian Shaw (Tate), ‘Performance as Refrain’

Amy Tobin (Kettle’s Yard), ‘Closing Remarks’

British Art Talks Podcast Series 2020

The British Art Talks podcast features new research and aims to enhance and expand knowledge of British art and architecture.

6 May, Episode 1: William Etty and the Classical Body

Hosted by Anna Reid

Guest Speakers: Cora Gilroy-Ware and Mary Beard

13 May, Episode 2: ‘What will survive of us is love’: Memory and Emotion in Late-Medieval England

Hosted by Anna Reid

Guest speaker: Jessica Barker

27 May, Episode 3: The English Carthusians and the Art of Abstinence

Hosted by Anna Reid

Guest Speaker: Julian Luxford

3 June, Episode 4: Hard Times and Late Victorian Art

Hosted by Anna Reid

Guest Speaker: Alex Potts

10 June, Episode 5: Exploring London’s Art Scene in the 1960s

Hosted by Anna Reid

Guest Speakers: Lisa Tickner and Mark Hallett

17 June, Episode 6: ‘Things in their natural surroundings’?: Marketing the British Country House as Home

Hosted by Anna Reid

Guest Speaker: Kate Retford

24 June, Episode 7: The Medicinal Garden

Hosted by Anna Reid

Guest Speakers: Clare Hickman, Claire Preston and Carole Rawcliffe

Summer Fellows Lunch 2020

19 May Adrienne Rooney, ‘“Starting from that earth”: Humanized Landscape, Rastafarian Painting and Anticolonial Visions in 1970s Kingston’

Summer Research Lunch Series 2020

29 May Evelyn Whorrall-Campbell, ‘Uncertain Grounds and Absent Figures in Tina’s Keane’s Faded Wallpaper (1988)’