BRA 2020 CONFERENCE POSTPONED
We are still working to reschedule our conference “Creative Encounters: Art in the Archives”, which should have been held on 23 April 2020, and will provide an update once details have been confirmed. Tickets already purchased will still be valid for the rescheduled conference date; refunds will also be available.
Postponed BRA Conference 2020: Thursday 23 April 2020
Creative Encounters. Art in the Archives
The Gallery, 77 Cowcross Street, London EC1M 6EL
Programme
09.45 Registration and coffee
10.15 WELCOME
10.30 Alexia Kirk, Archivist, Archive of Art and Design, V&A: Researching, residing, making: historians and practitioners in the archive
11.00 Charlotte Brunskill, Archivist, Records & Data Protection Manager, and Jenny Hill, Assistant Archivist & Records Manager, the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art: Brian Sewell: art historian, celebrity, ‘Outsider’ – conflicting identities in the Archive
11.30 Victoria Lane, Library & Archive Manager, Shakespeare’s Globe: Stuff, Box, Archive: working with contemporary artists on their archives
12.00 – 12.30 Questions and discussion
12.30 BUFFET LUNCH
13.30 Mark Pomeroy, Archivist, Royal Academy of Arts: A peek behind the red velvet curtain – hunting for the real Sir Thomas Lawrence
14.00 Toby Treves, Author, Publisher and Curator, Modern Art Press: Provenance research and the catalogue raisonné: Peter Lanyon
14.30 Dr Giorgia Bottinelli, Curator of Historic Art, Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery: John Crome: The quiet modern
15.00 – 15.30 Questions and discussion
15.30 BREAK FOR TEA OR COFFEE
16.00 Panel Session: Archives and art: Interactions
The panel will consider the question: If it exists at all, where does the boundary between art and document lie?
Alan Crookham, The National Gallery Research Centre [Chair] Sir Charles Saumarez Smith, Chairman of the Royal Drawing School
Michael Takeo Magruder, Artist & Researcher: Remixing the Archive
Sarah Haylett, Tate: Active Archives at Tate
Emilie Cloos, The National Archives
17.00 END OF CONFERENCE