This one-day symposium, timed to accompany the
exhibition DreamWork by artist and researcher Christie Brown, will
consider the relationship between ceramic art practice and museum collections
within the broader context of contemporary visual culture. The symposium will
address key areas of inspiration for artists within this context, by focussing
on the dialogue between the concept, the collection and the specific nature of
the site. Papers will feature a subjective response to Freud’s archaic
figurative collection, the uncanny notion of the inner life in inanimate objects
and the private house as museum, broadening out to raise curatorial and
theoretical questions around the nature of this art practice within post modern
culture and ideology.
Speakers include:
Dr Glenn Adamson, Head of Research at the Victoria & Albert Museum.
Christie Brown, Professor of Ceramics at the University of Westminster.
Andrew Renton, Curator of Applied Art at the National Museum of Wales
Esther Leslie, Professor of Political Aesthetics at Birkbeck College, London.
Janice West, writer and curator.
Calum Storrie, writer and exhibition designer.
Researchers Christie Brown, Julian Stair and Clare Twomey
and PhD student Laura Breen form the team for this project and the
exhibition DreamWork is a key element in the dissemination of the
outcomes. The major objective of the project is to investigate the ways in which
contemporary ceramic artists have used ceramic practice to initiate new ways of
working and new dialogues within the context of museums.
The symposium forms part of the research project Ceramics in the Expanded Field funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council through the University of
Westminster in London. For conference details click here.
Speakers include:
Dr Glenn Adamson, Head of Research at the Victoria & Albert Museum.
Christie Brown, Professor of Ceramics at the University of Westminster.
Andrew Renton, Curator of Applied Art at the National Museum of Wales
Esther Leslie, Professor of Political Aesthetics at Birkbeck College, London.
Janice West, writer and curator.
Calum Storrie, writer and exhibition designer.
Researchers Christie Brown, Julian Stair and Clare Twomey
and PhD student Laura Breen form the team for this project and the
exhibition DreamWork is a key element in the dissemination of the
outcomes. The major objective of the project is to investigate the ways in which
contemporary ceramic artists have used ceramic practice to initiate new ways of
working and new dialogues within the context of museums.
The symposium forms part of the research project Ceramics in the Expanded Field funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council through the University of
Westminster in London. For conference details click here.