PSSA Events
Gabriel Hayes working on the relief of 'Aviation' for the façade of the new Department of Industry and Commerce building Kildare Street, Dublin, 1942.
Discovering Women Sculptors – Autumn Series Two
Tuesday 21 September (2nd in series of 12)
‘A woman among the sculptors is a phenomenon which excites wonder and demands investigation’ – women and sculpture in Ireland by Professor Paula Murphy.
An online Zoom talk, free for PSSA Members. £3.50 for non-members (join the PSSA).
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Concluded Events
Maria Faydherbe (1587-1643) Virgin and Child, alabaster, c.1630-40, Victoria and Albert Museum
Discovering Women Sculptors – Autumn Series TwoConcluded
Tuesday 14 September (1st in series of 12)
Maria Faydherbe: a seventeenth-century sculptor in Mechelen by Dr Holly Trusted FSA
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‘Breekbaar afgebeeld’: Anna Maria van Schurman as a sculptor by Erik Bijzet
Two short online Zoom talks, free for PSSA Members (join the PSSA). £3.50 for non-members.
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Giovanni Battista Foggini, S. Andrea Corsini guiding the Florentines to Victory at Battle of Anghiari, 1685-87, marble, Corsini Chapel, Sta Maria del Carmine, Florence, Italy. Photo: Dr Kira d'Alburquerque.
A Taste of Italy: Three Lectures on Italian SculptureConcluded
Monday 7 June 5.30pm
Giovanni Battista Foggini (1652-1725), Court Sculptor to Grand Duke of Tuscany Cosimo III by Dr Kira d’Alburquerque, Curator of Sculpture at the Victoria and Albert Museum and PSSA Associate Trustee.
Online talk, free for PSSA Members (join the PSSA). £3.50 for non-members.
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Trapani workshop (perhaps Alberto Tipa), Saint Sebastian, c. 1750, alabaster, Anglesey Abbey, Cambridge (National Trust). Photo: Dr Jeremy Warren.
A Taste of Italy: Three Lectures on Italian SculptureConcluded
Tuesday 8 June 5.30pm
From Madonnas to Myths: Alabaster sculptures from Trapani by Dr Jeremy Warren, Honorary Curator of Sculpture, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford and Sculpture Research Curator, The National Trust.
Online talk, free for PSSA Members (join the PSSA). £3.50 for non-members.
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'The Late Mr. D. Brucciani. (From a photograph by S.A. Walker, 230, Regent Street.)', Pictorial World (24 April 1880), p. 125. Wood engraving. Collection of the author.
A Taste of Italy: Three Lectures on Italian SculptureConcluded
Wednesday 9 June 5.30pm
Picturing Domenico Brucciani: The Man Behind the (Death) Masks by Dr Rebecca Wade, Freelance art historian and curator.
Online talk, free for PSSA Members (join the PSSA). £3.50 for non-members.
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Mary Edmonia Lewis (1845-1907), Hagar, 1875, marble, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC. Photo: Public Domain
Discovering Women Sculptors – Spring Series OneConcluded
Tuesday 18 May 5.30pm
Discovering Women Sculptors from the 17th Century to the Present Day
Online Zoom talk – Child of the Fire: Mary Edmonia Lewis, Neoclassicism, and the Negotiations of Place by Professor Kirsten Pai Buick
Free event for PSSA Members (join the PSSA). £3.50 for non-members.
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Acts of Defiance: Exploring Protest ArtConcluded
Saturday 15 May 2021 10.00-14.10
SCOTTISH SOCIETY FOR ART HISTORY (SSAH) in partnership with THE PUBLIC STATUES AND SCULPTURE ASSOCIATION
Free Event – Online Webinar
Exploring the relationship between art & protest, & the role of art in confronting political, social, cultural & environmental issues.
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Toppling Statues WebinarConcluded
23 and 24 November 2020
Co-hosted by the PSSA and The Burlington Magazine this free webinar coincided with the Burlington’s annual sculpture issue. The event proved extremely popular with around 450 people registered to attend and over 200 participants on both days. This highlighted the fact that people were keen to debate the concerns surrounding the issue of contested heritage in a constructive forum.