Architectural Sculpture in Britain 1850-1914

Public Statues and Sculpture Association

This webinar will explore themes in architectural sculpture between 1850-1914.

<h3>A new aesthetic or ‘mere decoration’? Architectural Sculpture in Britain 1850-1914</h3>Saturday 17 September 2022 Timetable9.45 WelcomeSession 1Chair: Holly Trusted10.00 Ann Compton, Keynote Speaker: A mere tool of the architect? How architectural sculptors built and maintained good working relationships with architects, c.1850-190010.30 Alex Bremner, Sculpture and the Architecture of ‘Phonetics’ in Victorian Sculpture10.50 Sheila Binns, Sculpture as a patron’s language11.10 Discussion11.25 Coffee breakSession 2Chair: Joanna Barnes11.45 Frederick O’Dwyer, Separating fact from fable – the O’Shea brothers and the Oxford University Museum12.05 David Bussey, William James Neatby, 1860-1910, ‘Undoubted genius’ in the decorative arts12.25 Jessica Jenkinson, ‘Fancy ware for Fancy Buildings: ‘Cosseyware’ in Victorian Norwich 1857-191512.45 Discussion1.00 Lunch breakSession 3Chair: Alexander Kader1.45 Jane Winfrey, Alfred Drury and Architectural Collaboration2.05 Colin Fenn, Ceramic Funeral Memorials2.25 Philip Ward-Jackson, If ‘there is but one art’, who calls the shots?2.45 DiscussionSession 4Chair: Andrew Saint3.00 Joseph Sharples, Ill formed babies with vegetable tails’: Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Architectural Sculpture3.20 Karen Mailley-Watt, Charm &amp; Cleverness: Sculptors, the built environment, and The Glasgow Society of Lady Artists3.40 Kathryn Ferry, The Architectural Sculpture of Drinking Fountains4.00 Discussion4.15 Tea breakSession 5Chair: Roger Bowdler4.35 Jim Cheshire, The Memorial to William Hodson in Lichfield Cathedral by George Edmund Street4.55 Serenhedd James, Oxford’s monuments to Cecil Rhodes: Catholic and Jewish symbols of the confessional diversification of the University5.15 Closing discussion6.00 Webinar ends Webinar prices:PSSA Members £5; PSSA Student members &amp; under 30s Free; Non PSSA Members £10; non PSSA students £5Main image: William James Neatby, Astronomia with zodiac signs , the Astronomy Centre, Royal Observatory, Greenwich (photo: Elliott Brown from Birmingham, United Kingdom, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

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