Networks July 2021–June 2022

Where venues are not specified, events were held online

British Art Network (BAN) Research Group Events

BAN Research Groups focus on specific areas of British art. Their programmes of activity, including workshops, seminars and networking sessions, are developed and led by Network members.

2021

6 July British South-Asian Visual Art Post Cool Britannia: ‘Un-Swamping the River –Painters Turning the Tide on Racism’

9 September Post-War Painting in Regional Collections: ‘Post-War Women Painters’, New Art Gallery, Walsall

23 September British South-Asian Visual Art Post Cool Britannia: ‘The Shape of Immateriality’

8 December British Drawings: ‘Academicism and Drawing’, Royal Academy, London

2022

21 January Northern Irish Art/Courtauld Institute: Symposium: ‘Northern Ireland’s Feminist and Queer Art Histories’, Dr Fionna Barber and Emma Campbell

8 April Queer British Art: ‘STORMY WEATHER – A Day of Debate, Defiance & Celebration’, Manchester Art Gallery

9 May–16 June Black British Art

Reading Group

12 May Race, Empire and the Pre-Raphaelites: ‘Empire and the Everyday Object’, Alison Solomon

25 May The Art of Captioning: ‘Making Access Work’, Elaine Lillian Joseph, Nina Thomas and Natasha Trantom

6 June British Landscapes: Visit to Recreating Constable at Christchurch Mansion, Ipswich

15 June Northern Irish Art: ‘A Bigger Picture: Photography Redefining Northern Ireland’

16 June Disability in British Art: ‘Exploring Difference from an Artist’s Perspective’

22 June Race, Empire and the Pre-Raphaelites: ‘Difficult Objects’

29 June The Art of Captioning: ‘Introduction to Caption-Writing and Caption Consultation’, Anita WolskaKaslow and Nina Thomas

Emerging Curators Group

The Emerging Curators Group (ECG) is a supportive forum for the next generation of curators in the UK, enabling peers to come together and share experiences and thinking around curating British art.

2021

21–22 September Taster Sessions: Emerging Curators Group 2022

12–13 October ECG In-person

Two-Day Workshop, Liverpool

2022

28 January ECG Workshop 1

17 March ECG In-person Workshop 2, York City Art Gallery

25 April ECG Workshop 3

9–10 June ECG In-person Workshop 4, Manchester Art Gallery

British Art Network Conference,

1–15 July 2021: Genealogies of Black Curating in Britain

The programme consisted of roundtables, films and discussion focused on the emergence, strategies and agency of Black curatorial practices in Britain over the past forty years, convened for the British Art Network by curator and researcher Paul Goodwin (TrAIN, University of the Arts London) with project curation by Rahila Haque.

1 July ‘Emergence of Black Curatorial Voices’. Panel discussion with Shaheen Merali, Rita Keegan and Hassan Aliyu.

8 July ‘Ambivalent Mainstreaming: Black Curators and Institutions’. Panel discussion with Gilane Tawadros, Nima Poovaya-Smith and Mark Miller.

15 July ‘Collective Futures and the Archival (Re)Turn: Curating in the Expanded Field’. Panel discussion with OOMK, Raju Rage and Ajamu.

BAN Seminars

BAN supports a range of seminars through annual bursaries and collaboration with other organisations.

2021

14 July Irish Modernisms, Global Contexts: Seminar 2: ‘Irish Modernisms Exhibition – Meet the Artists’

4 August Irish Modernisms, Global Contexts: Seminar 3: ‘Latin American Modernisms’, Harper Montgomery and Jorge González

18 August Irish Modernisms, Global Contexts: Seminar 4: ‘Post-Soviet Baltic Modernisms’, Andres Kurg and Mari Laanements

1 September Irish Modernisms, Global Contexts: Seminar 5: ‘East African Modernisms’, Professor Edward Denison and Dawit L. Petros

4 November Itinerant Imaginaries II: Online Seminar: ‘Archival Disorientation’, Nydia A. Swaby, Barby Asante, Ra Malika Imhotep and Nathalie Anguezomo Mba Bikoro

22 November Itinerant Imaginaries II: Film Screening: ‘Archival Disorientation’, Regent Street Cinema, London

11 December ‘S:E:P:A:L:S: An Intersectional Approach to Care and Safety’, Lauren Craig, Jack Ky Tan, Helen Starr, Salma Noor, Megan Broadmeadow, Brandon Covington Sam-Sumana, Nicholas Delap, Ben Hall, Nayu Kim, Kinnari Sayaiya, Amrita Dhallu, Kinnari Saraiya, Janine Francois and Georgina Obaya Evans

Doctoral Researchers Network

2021

26 October Roundtable: ‘Re-Imagining British Art History and Futures’, Jessie McLaughlin, Lu Zhang and Zarina Muhammad

9 November WIP Workshop: ‘Exploration, Cartography, Bombardment: The Search for Petroleum in Royal Dutch Shell’s Interwar Advertising Posters’, Tobah Aukland-Peck

16 November PhD Toolkit: ‘Interpreting Artworks’, Anjalie Dalal-Clayton

23 November WIP Workshop: ‘Laughing at the Pre-Raphaelites: Reading the Label in Visual Parodies’, Susie Beckham

7 December WIP Workshop: ‘Machine Learning Artworks as Systemsof-Systems’, Alasdair Milne

10 December Winter Social

2022

15 February PhD Toolkit: ‘How to Edit and Get Published’, Isabella Vitti, Sarah Victoria Turner and Baillie Card

22 February WIP Workshop: ‘A Gothic Legacy: James Wyatt and the Palace of Westminster, 1799–1835’, Murray Tremellen

1 March Roundtable: ‘Socially Engaged Art History and Beyond’, Clare Patey, Sammi Lukic-Scott and Jacob V. Joyce

8 March WIP Workshop: ‘The “Tendril” and the “Root”: Rethinking the Fin-deSiècle’s Artistic Landscape’, Emily Cox

12 April WIP Workshop: ‘Back to Nature: Exhibiting Trees in Contemporary England (1980–now)’, Laura Ouillon

10 May WIP Workshop: ‘Women as Professional Art Models and the Pre-Raphaelite Aesthetic Mission (1848–1865)’, Cátia Rodrigues

2022

27 January PMC Postdoc Lecture: ‘Masculinity and Apocalypticism in Contemporary British Art’, Edwin Coomasaru

28 March ‘Pivoting to the Commercial Art World’, Molly (Dorkin) Taylor, Sam Cornish, Rakeb Sile and John Hawley

31 May PMC Postdoc Lecture: ‘Writing a New Story of Tudor Art’ , Christina J. Faraday

DRN and ECRN Collaborative Events

2022

1 February ‘Digital Art History: Podcasts, Blogs, Social Media’, Lisa Anderson, Ferren Gipson, Zarina Muhammad and Madeleine Pelling

16 May ‘Caring and Precarity: Parents, Carers and Early Career Research’, Anna CohenMiller, Yelizaveta Kamilova, Catherine Grant, Lizzy Harris and Pandora Syperek

10 June ‘Re-Considering British Art History’: The ECRN and DRN Summer Symposium and Social

Session 1: ‘Writing British Art’, chaired by Ama Josephine Budge Johnstone, with papers by Emily Cox, Nicholas Dunn-McAfee, Dr Alex Gushurst-Moore and Laura Davidson

Session 2: ‘New Media and Methods’, chaired by Irene Fubara-Manuel, with papers by Eliza Goodpasture, Nick Mols, Rhian Addison McCreanor and Melissa Gustin

Early Career Researchers Network

2021

28 October PMC Postdoc Lecture: ‘The Atlas Unbound: John Webber, James Cook, and the End of Sympathy’, Ben Pollitt

29 November ‘From Thesis to Book’, Gregory Salter, Cora Gilroy-Ware and Zoë Thomas

10 December ECRN Winter Social

Session 3: ‘Beyond British Borders’, chaired by Sarah Victoria Turner, with papers by Sophie Rhodes, Emma Sharples and Robert Wilkes

Session 4: ‘Examining Empire’, chaired by Hassan Vawda, with papers by Thomas Cooper, Claudia Di Tosto, Jason Cyrus and Lindsay Wells