Conference: Architectural Sculpture in Britain 1850-1914 (Online)

A new aesthetic or ‘mere decoration’? Architectural Sculpture in Britain 1850-1914

This conference has been co-organised by the Victorian Society and the Public Statues and Sculpture Association

This event will no longer be taking place live, as advertised, at the Art Workers' Guild, but will be held solely online and hosted by the Public Statues and Sculpture Association (PSSA). Members who have already made a booking for either in-person or online attendance will receive a full refund and are invited to re-book through the PSSA .

Timetable

9.30 Registration

9.50 Welcome

Session 1

Chair: Holly Trusted

10.00 Ann Compton, Keynote Speaker: A mere tool of the architect? How architectural sculptors built and maintained good working relationships with architects, c.1850-1900

10.30 Alex Bremner, Sculpture and the Architecture of ‘Phonetics’ in Victorian Sculpture

10.50 Sheila Binns, Sculpture as a patron’s language

11.10 Discussion

11.25 Coffee break

Session 2

Chair: Joanna Barnes

11.45 Frederick O’Dwyer, Separating fact from fable - the O'Shea brothers and the Oxford University Museum

12.05 David Bussey William James Neatby, 1860-1910, ‘Undoubted genius’ in the decorative arts

12.25 Jessica Jenkinson ‘Fancy ware for Fancy Buildings: ‘Cosseyware’ in Victorian Norwich 1857-1915

12.45 Discussion

13.00 Lunch break

Session 3

Chair: tbc

1.45 Jane Winfrey, Alfred Drury and Architectural Collaboration

2.05 Colin Fenn Ceramic Funeral Memorials tbc

2.25 Philip Ward-Jackson, If ‘there is but one art’, who calls the shots?

2.45 Discussion

Session 4

Chair: Andrew Saint

3.00 Joseph Sharples, Ill formed babies with vegetable tails': Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Architectural Sculpture

3.20 Karen Mailley-Watt, Charm & Cleverness: Sculptors, the built environment, and The Glasgow Society of Lady Artists

3.40 Kathryn Ferry, The Architectural Sculpture of Drinking Fountains

4.00 Discussion

4.15 Tea

Session 5

Chair: Roger Bowdler

4.35 Jim Cheshire, The memorial to William Hodson in Lichfield Cathedral by George Edmund Street

4.55 Cornelia van der Poll, The two sculptural memorials to Cecil Rhodes at Oriel College, Oxford

5.15 Mary Ann Steggles, The Victoria Memorial in Kolkata

5.35 Closing discussion

6.00 End of conference