10.15am

Registration

10.50 – 11.10am

Welcome and introduction to the day

11.10 – 11.30

Paper 1: Michael Hose (Cardiff Metropolitan University)
‘What difference can a description make?’

11.30 – 11.50

Paper 2: Conor Wilson
‘ “You can use clay, but you can’t do ceramics”: Some thoughts about why Ceramics isn´t Sculpture, based on the thinking of Eduardo Chillida and Robert Morris’

11.50 -12.00

Questions

12.00 – 12.20pm

Paper 3: Dr Isabel Hufschmidt (Mirko Mayer Gallery, Cologne, Germany)
‘The Edition of Sculpture in England: A French spirit of commerce, English manufactories and the New Sculpture’

12.20 – 12.40

Paper 4: Michael Tooby (independent researcher and curator)
‘The way in which a major museum’s collecting activity can transgress traditional taxonomies in a creative and rich manner’

12.40 – 1.00

Questions

1.00 – 2.00pm

Lunch

2.00 – 2.20

Paper 5: Alun Graves (Curator, Ceramics & Glass Collection, V&A)
‘Hans Coper: Sculpture in Architecture’

2.20 – 2.40

Paper 6: Professor Stephen Dixon (Manchester Metropolitan University)
‘Why Clay?’

2.40 – 3.00

Keynote speaker: Dr Jon Wood (Henry Moore Institute, Leeds)
‘Manual Thinking’

3.00 – 3.15

Questions

3.15 – 3.45pm

Tea

3.45 – 4.45

Panel – Q & A and discussion with Bonnie Kemske (editor of Ceramic Review), David Jones (University of Wolverhampton) and Prof Moira Vincentelli (Curator of Ceramics at Aberystwyth University)

4.45 – 5.00pm

Final discussion and closing comments