PSSA Events
Photo: Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (1807-1894), Megalosaurus, cement, in course of conservation, Crystal Palace Park, South London.
WEBINAR – The Unusual Suspects: investigating less familiar sculptural materials from the 17th century onwards
Friday 28 January & Saturday 29 January 2022
Webinar (online via Zoom)
Book Tickets via Eventbrite:
PSSA Members – free
Students and unemployed – free
All other delegates – £10
Scott Sutherland, The Commando Memorial, Spean Bridge, Scotland with Ben Nevis in the background. Photo: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Saturday 21 May 2022
Public Sculpture in Britain 1945-1980
Scottish Society for Art History
in partnership with the
Public Statues and Sculpture Association
Online webinar 21 May 2022
Concluded Events
Discovering Women Sculptors – Autumn Series TwoConcluded
Tuesday 30 November (12th in series of 12)
Sculptor, Holly Hendry in conversation with Helen Pheby, Head of Curatorial Programme at Yorkshire Sculpture Park
An online Zoom talk, free for PSSA Members. £3.50 for non-members (join the PSSA).
Free tickets and charged tickets book via Eventbrite.
The Spirit of the Crusaders (detail) for Paisley Memorial
Discovering Women Sculptors – Autumn Series TwoConcluded
Tuesday 23 November (11th in series of 12)
Undaunted Spirit: The life and art of Gertrude Alice Meredith Williams ARBS (1877-1934)
by Phyllida Shaw
An online Zoom talk, free for PSSA Members. £3.50 for non-members (join the PSSA).
Free tickets and charged tickets book via Eventbrite.
CALL FOR PAPERSConcluded
28-30 January 2022
The Unusual Suspects:
Investigating less familiar sculptural
materials from the 17th century onwards
Online webinar 28-30 January 2022
The Entombment of Christ (1701), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (photo: Creative Commons CCO)
Luisa Roldán – Online Discussion and Book LaunchConcluded
Wednesday 20 October 2021 12:00 – 13:30
Luisa Roldán – online discussion and book launch
Free online event, book tickets via Eventbrite
Mary Spencer Watson in her studio
Discovering Women Sculptors – Autumn Series TwoConcluded
Tuesday 16 November (10th in series of 12)
Mary Spencer Watson: Purbeck Sculptor by Caroline Stanford
An online Zoom talk, free for PSSA Members. £3.50 for non-members (join the PSSA).
Free tickets and charged tickets book via Eventbrite.
School of Art Wood Carving Workshop, c. 1927-8.
Discovering Women Sculptors – Autumn Series TwoConcluded
Tuesday 9 November (9th in series of 12)
Women wood carvers and the School of Art Woodcarving c.1879-1930 by Ann Compton
An online Zoom talk, free for PSSA Members. £3.50 for non-members (join the PSSA).
Free tickets and charged tickets book via Eventbrite.
Mary Gillick: Cast medal of Ida Wylie, 1918, British Museum.
Discovering Women Sculptors – Autumn Series TwoConcluded
Tuesday 2 November (8th in series of 12)
‘As feminists we rejoice in your great achievement’: the sculptural work of Mary Gillick by Philip Attwood
An online Zoom talk, free for PSSA Members. £3.50 for non-members (join the PSSA).
Free tickets and charged tickets book via Eventbrite.
Augusta Savage, c. 1938, with her sculpture Realization, created as part of the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project. Photo: Archives of American Art, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
Discovering Women Sculptors – Autumn Series TwoConcluded
Tuesday 26 October (7th in series of 12)
‘I have created nothing really beautiful:’ Augusta Savage’s Practice’ by Dr Jeffreen Hayes
An online Zoom talk, free for PSSA Members. £3.50 for non-members (join the PSSA).
Free tickets and charged tickets book via Eventbrite.
Clare Sheridan, Mountain Horse, 1937, plaster cast. Hastings Museum and Art Gallery.
Discovering Women Sculptors – Autumn Series TwoConcluded
Tuesday 19 October (6th in series of 12)
Exploring difference: Three women sculptors imaging non-European subjects in an age of Empire c.1925-1946 by Dr Jonathan Black
An online Zoom talk, free for PSSA Members. £3.50 for non-members (join the PSSA).
Free tickets and charged tickets book via Eventbrite.
Harriet Goodhue Hosmer with her assistants and carvers in the courtyard of her studio in Rome,1867, albumen print, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Photo: Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
Discovering Women Sculptors – Autumn Series TwoConcluded
Tuesday 12 October (5th in series of 12)
A Sisterhood of Sculptors: American Artists in 19th Century Rome by Professor Melissa Dabakis
An online Zoom talk, free for PSSA Members. £3.50 for non-members (join the PSSA).
Free tickets and charged tickets book via Eventbrite.
Susan Durant, Victoria, Crown Princess of Prussia, clay model (approx. 50cm max), September 1865 (Windsor Castle, Royal Archives)
Discovering Women Sculptors – Autumn Series TwoConcluded
Tuesday 5 October (4th in series of 12)
Princess and Pupil: new light on the sculpture of Susan Durant and Victoria, Princess Royal, Crown Princess of Prussia by Jonathan Marsden
An online Zoom talk, free for PSSA Members. £3.50 for non-members (join the PSSA).
Free tickets and charged tickets book via Eventbrite.
Barbara Hepworth's 'Turning Forms' at the Festival of Britain 1951.
Discovering Women Sculptors – Autumn Series TwoConcluded
Tuesday 28 September (3rd in series of 12)
Barbara Hepworth and the Festival of Britain by Eleanor Clayton
An online Zoom talk, free for PSSA Members. £3.50 for non-members (join the PSSA).
Free tickets and charged tickets book via Eventbrite.
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 TwoConcluded
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).
Free tickets and charged tickets book via Eventbrite.
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
and
‘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.
Book free and charged tickets via Eventbrite.
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.
Book free and charged tickets via Eventbrite.
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.
Book free and charged tickets via Eventbrite.
'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.
Book free and charged tickets via Eventbrite.
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.
Book via Eventbrite
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.