Investigating the intellectual and spatial legacy of the life-room.
This conference considered the intellectual apparatus and physical spaces that structure art education today by exploring the history and legacy of the life room as both physical and intellectual space, and examining the traditions of looking and approaches to knowledge it established. Speakers included academics, curators and artists. See below for full conference programme.
The conference was organised by 果冻影院 Art Museum, the Royal Collection and the University of Brighton in conjunction with Naomi Salaman's exhibition听Looking Back at the Life Room听at 果冻影院 Art Museum. It took place听on Friday 11 June and Saturday 12 June 2010
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- Conference Programme
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Conference Programme
- 9.30听- Registration and coffee
- 10.00听- Introduction
- 10.15听-听Caravaggio, Annibale Carracci and life drawing in Baroque Rome听- Martin Clayton (Deputy Curator of the Print Room, The Royal Collection)
- 10.45听-听A Day in 'the Life': The experience of studying at the Royal Academy of Arts in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries听- Annette Wickham (Research Curator, Collections and Library, Royal Academy of Arts)
- 11.15听- Coffee
- 11.45听-听Drawing the Figure from the Cast and Life听- David Jeremiah (Leverhulme Emeritus Fellow)
- 12.15听-听The Redundant Rebus: Reality Checks on the Functioning of the Life Class听- Deanna Petherbridge (Professor Emeritus University of the West of England, Bristol and Visiting Professor of Drawing, University of the Arts, London)
- 12.45听- Discussion
- 1.15听-听Lunch (not provided)
- 2.45听-听Drawing from Objects: A Historical Perspective听- Morna Hilton (Head of Learning, Victoria and Albert Museum)
- 3.15听-听When is Realistic too Realistic?听- Ed Allington (Professor and Head of Graduate Sculpture, Slade School of Fine Art, 果冻影院)
- 3.45听-听Discussion
- 4.15听- Tea
Panel: History and Practices of the Slade and Norwich Life Rooms:
- 4.45听-听The 'F' Studio 1970s to the Present听- Jo Volley (Senior Lecturer, Painting, Slade School of Fine Art, 果冻影院)
- 5.00听-听John Wonnacott and John Lessore: The Life Room at Norwich School of Art 1978-1985听- Lynda Morris (Curator EASTinternational and AHRC Research Fellow, Norwich University College of the Arts)
- 5.15听-听Don't go in there: Painting in the Slade Life Room 2003-07听- Geoff Stein (Artist)
- 5.30听-听Dot and Carry; point and scan听- Tom Lomax (Lecturer, Sculpture, Slade School of Fine Art, 果冻影院)
- 5.45听- Discussion
- 6.15听- Reception and Private View of the exhibition听Looking Back at the Life Room
Saturday
Transitions in art education 1960s - 1970s
- 10.00听- Introduction
- 10.15听-听Drawing Parallels between Life and Art: Challenges to the Art School in Fifties and Sixties Britain听- Ben Cranfield (Lecturer in Arts Management, Department of Media and Cultural Studies, Birbeck College)
- 10.45听-听'Audience-free' Practices and the Art School Panopticon听- Chris Dorsett (Reader in Art School Practices, Department of Arts, School of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Northumbria)
- 11.15听- Coffee
- 11.45听-听Excavating the British Art School听- Matthew Cornford (Professor of Fine Art, Faculty of Arts, University of Brighton) and John Beck (Senior Lecturer, School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics, Newcastle University)
- 12.15听-听Yurts, Bars and Trailer Parks: Anti-Paradigms for the New Art School听- Steven Henry Madoff (Senior Critic, Yale University School of Art)
- 12.45听- Discussion
- 1.15听- Lunch (not provided)
Production of the art student as subject
- 2.45听-听A Body in Part听(performance) - Yuen Fong Ling (PhD Student, University of Lincoln)
- 3.45听- Tea
- 4.15听-听Between the Studio and the Seminar: What does art-school's double language do?听- Mary Anne Francis (Senior Lecturer Critical Fine Art Practice, University of Brighton and Research Fellow in Writing and Art, Chelsea College of Art)
- 4.45听-听Micropolitics of Art and Economy in the Art School Today听- Susan Kelly (Course Leader BA Fine Art and History of Art (Studio Practice) Department of Art, Goldsmith's College, University of London)
- 5.15听-听Under Construction: Alternative Art School SpRoUt听- Amy Cunningham (Senior Lecturer, Music and Visual Art, University of Brighton), Hayley Skipper (Arts Development Officer, Forestry Commission, Grizedale Forest) and Hannah Chiswell (MA Fine Art, Slade School of Fine Art)
- 5.45听- Discussion
- 6.15听- Close
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