Discovering Women Sculptors
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About this Event
Generations of women sculptors are gradually being rediscovered and acknowledged. This talented international sisterhood, many of whom have been forgotten, have skilfully practised sculpture through the centuries. Often determined, strong and resilient, they have literally left their chisel marks and fingerprints alongside those of men on the history of sculpture.
In these two exciting series of online talks, experts in the field rediscover these women sculptors from past centuries helping to lift them from obscurity to reveal their life and work, and converse with living artists to explore the challenges facing female sculptors today.
A celebration of international women sculptors, their artistic talent and their spirit, these talks document a rich artistic heritage of which women and young girls can be proud.
Series One - there are currently fourteen talks, four further talks are still to be confirmed.
Cost of attendance is only £3.50 per talk.
All talks in Series One are free for PSSA Members join the PSSA
Series One
Talks begin at 5.30pm UK time. Please note there is no talk in Easter week.
- Tuesday 26 January Against All Odds: British Women Sculptors c1885-1950 by Professor Pauline Rose
- Tuesday 9 February Luisa Roldán 1652-1706: from Seville to the Royal Court by Dr. Cathy Hall -van den Elsen
- Tuesday 16 February at 5pm Rediscover Sculptor Malvina Hoffman by Didi Hoffman
- Wednesday 24 February ‘Durability resembling Jasper or Porphery’: Mrs Eleanor Coade & her Artificial Stone Manufactory in Lambeth by Caroline Stanford, The Landmark Trust
- Tuesday 2 March 'Labeur, Honneur, Douleur'. Félicie de Fauveau (1801-1881) by Dr Philip Ward-Jackson
- Tuesday 9 March Princess Louise, a Royal Sculptor in Victorian Britain by Dr Désirée de Chair
- Tuesday 16 March Sister Sculptors?: Vinnie Ream, Sarah Fisher Ames, and the Suffrage Question in 19th Century America by Dr Melissa Dabakis
- Monday 22 March ‘The Slade Girls’ and others: women as medallists from1880 to the First World War by Philip Attwood
- Tuesday 23 March Anne Seymour Damer - fashioning sculptural identity by Professor Alison Yarrington
- Tuesday 30 March Across the Channel : British women sculptors and Auguste Rodin by Eva Belgherbi
- EASTER BREAK
- EASTER BREAK
- Tuesday 20 April ‘Mademoiselle, you have the gift of life’: Margaret Butler, Sculptor by Dr Mark Stocker. This talk is now taking place at 12 NOON
- Tuesday 27 April Glass Houses and other sculptures: the work of Permindar Kaur by Dr Alice Correia
- Tuesday 4 May Willoughby Gerrish in conversation with Emily Young
- Tuesday 11 May Mitzi Cunliffe: An American in Manchester by Professor Ann Sumner
- Tuesday 18 May Kirsten Pai Buick on Edmonia Lewis
- Tuesday 25th May "I have created nothing really beautiful:" Augusta Savage's Practice. Dr Jeffreen Hayes on Augusta Savage
Series One Ends (now complete)
Series Two
The second series will begin in September. Speakers will include Dr Holly Trusted on Maria Faydherbe and Erik Bijzet on Anna Maria van Schurman; Professor Paula Murphy; Sir Jonathan Marsden on Susan Durant; Dr Jonathan Black on Dora Gordine and Kathleen Bruce; Philip Attwood on Mary Gillick; Ann Compton; Dr Melanie Veasey on Josefina de Vasconcellos.
Main image: Slovak Sculptor, Alina Ferdinandy (1926-1974) at work, 1955, photo, Archive, SNG Bratislava.
Photo: Anne Seymour Damer (1748-1828) by William Greatbach, after Richard Cosway, stipple engraving, published 1857,NPG D20557, photo:CC BY-NC-ND 3.0.