Annual Conference: The Making of Things

We are delighted that such a range of curators and artists have agreed to contribute to our National Network Annual Conference 2011. The ornate interior of the Victoria Art Gallery & Museum, designed by architect Alfred Waterhouse whose other buildings include the Natural History Museum and Manchester Town Hall, could not be a more perfect place to hold this event and we hope that you will be able to join us.

To book your place email nationalprogrammes@contemporaryartsociety.org

How are collections of applied art and craft framed within the context of the museum collection?

This Conference will raise a number of issues relating to craft and applied art with a focus on dynamic use of collections, collection development, exhibition making and the concerns of the artist.

To download the full schedule (pdf) click here

Timetable for the day

10:00
Registration

11:00
Introduction by Lucy Byatt, Head of National Programmes, Contemporary Art Society

11.15
Film of Professor Jyotindra Jain

12:00
Panel 1 – Chaired by Grant Watson:
To include: Grant Watson, Senior Curator and Research Associate, Iniva; Divia Patel, Curator, Asian Department, V&A; and Eleanor Bradshaw, Inspire Fellow at the British Museum

12.45
Questions to the panel

13.00-14:15
Lunch and preview of the new National Network website

14.15
Talk - Glenn Adamson, Deputy Head of Research and Head of Graduate Studies at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

15.00
Panel 2 – Chaired by Andrew Renton
To include: Andrew Renton, Head of Applied Arts, National Museums Wales Cardiff; Neil Brownsword, artist, senior lecturer and researcher at Buckinghamshire New University; Fiona Jardine, artist and writer; and artist David Cushway.

15.45
Questions to the panel

16.15
Round up for the day

16.30
Close

17.30-19.00
Reception at Ceri Hand Gallery (please sign up at the beginning of the day if you would like to join us on the coach to Ceri Hand Gallery)


Booking
FREE for members of the National Network, £75 for non-members, discounts available for other Contemporary Art Society membership schemes.

To book your place please email nationalprogrammes@contemporaryartsociety.org

Travel Bursaries are now closed. Congratulations to the following National Network members who have been awarded a bursary:

Sana Moore, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne
Fiona Slattery, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery
Alison Cooper, Plymouth Museum & Art Gallery
Helen Walsh, York Art Gallery
Andrea Kusel, Paisley Museum & Art Gallery