PSSA Events
Statue of local benefactress Tatiana, c. AD 200, fallen in front of its base, Aphrodisias (1964). Courtesy of New York University Excavations at Aphrodisias
Public Statues and Cancel Culture from the Ancient Roman Perspective
Tuesday 6 December at 6.30pm
Public Statues and Cancel Culture from the Ancient Roman Perspective by Julia Lenaghan
An online talk, PSSA Members free. Non-members £3.50 (join the PSSA).
Free tickets and charged tickets book via Eventbrite
Peyton Skipwith with a relief by Adolfine Ryland in the background (photo: Philip Attwood).
Discovering Women Sculptors – Spring, series four
Tuesday 24 January 2023 at 6.30pm
A Life in Relief – Women Sculptors at The Fine Art Society. Peyton Skipwith former Deputy Managing Director of The Fine Art Society, New Bond Street, London in conversation with Philip Attwood former keeper of Coins and Medals at the British Museum.
An online Zoom discussion, free for PSSA Members. £3.50 for non-members (join the PSSA).
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Concluded Events
The seventeenth-century Town Hall (now the Royal Palace) in Amsterdam by Jacob van Campen (architect) and Artus Quellinus the Elder (sculptor) (photo: Koninklijk Paleis, Amsterdam)
Sculptural Lineage: Masters and PupilsConcluded
Tuesday 29 November at 6.30pm
Artus Quellinus the Elder and the Members of his Amsterdam Workshop by Bieke van der Mark
An online Zoom talk, PSSA Members free, Non-members £3.50 (join the PSSA).
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Sculptural Lineage: Masters and PupilsConcluded
Tuesday 22 November at 7.30pm
Fathers and Daughters in Sculpture workshops in early modern Spain:
Pedro Roldán and his daughters Francisca, Luisa and Maria Roldán;
Pedro de Mena and his daughters Andrea and Claudia de Mena by Dr Cathy Hall-van den Elsen
An online Zoom talk, PSSA Members free, Non-members £3.50 (join the PSSA).
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Giovanni Battista Foggini, Prometheus, bronze, later adapted in Doccia porcelain. Victoria and Albert Museum, London (photo: © Victoria & Albert Museum)
Sculptural Lineage: Masters and PupilsConcluded
Tuesday 15 November at 6.30pm
Foggini’s Legacy
by Dr Kira d’Alburquerque, Senior Curator of Sculpture at the Victoria and Albert Museum and PSSA Trustee.
An online talk, PSSA Members free. Non-members £3.50 (join the PSSA).
Free tickets and charged tickets book via Eventbrite
Monument to William Mulready designed by Godfrey Sykes. Central Avenue, Kensal Green Cemetery (photo: Terry Cavanagh).
CANCELLED – Walking Tour of Kensal Green CemeteryConcluded
Sunday 6 November at 11am
DUE TO RAIL STRIKES THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED. WE HOPE TO RESCHEDULE IT IN THE SPRING.
A 90 minute walking tour of Kensal Green.
Free event restricted to PSSA and Church Monuments Society members only.
Email office@pssauk.org to register and receive itinerary.
Loggia with Reliefs of The Three Ages of Man by Godfrey Sykes, James Gamble and Reuben Townroe. Victoria and Albert Museum, Lecture Block (photo: Andrew Carter)
PSSA Webinar: A new aesthetic or ‘mere decoration’? Architectural Sculpture in Britain 1850-1914Concluded
Saturday 17 September 2022
PSSA members £5; PSSA Students/U30s Free; Non-PSSA members £10; Non-PSSA Students/ U30s £5.
Please book via Eventbrite
Scotland: Public Art & Design Tour of Hilltown, DundeeConcluded
Saturday 20 August 2022
Public art walking tour of Hilltown, Dundee
University museum curator Matthew Jarron will lead an informal walking tour round artworks in the Hilltown area.
Free Event
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Scotland: Public Art & Design Tour of Dundee City CentreConcluded
Wednesday 17 August
Public art walking tour of Dundee City Centre
University museum curator Matthew Jarron will lead an informal walking tour round artworks in Dundee City Centre.
Free event
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Scotland: Public Art & Design Tour of StobswellConcluded
Saturday 23 July 2pm
Public art walking tour of Stobswell
University museum curator Matthew Jarron will lead an informal walking tour round artworks in the Stobswell area.
Free Event
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Scotland: Public Art & Design Tour of LocheeConcluded
Wednesday 20 July, 2pm
Public art walking tour of Lochee
University museum curator Matthew Jarron will lead an informal walking tour round artworks in the Lochee area.
Free Event
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Thomas Thornycroft, Queen Victoria, 1853, bronze, coll. Yale Center for British Art. CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication
Queen Victoria’s many equestrian statues and statuettesConcluded
Tuesday 5 July 2022
Queen Victoria’s many equestrian statues and statuettes. The neglect and rediscovery of a pioneering feature of Victorian sculpture by Dr Philip Ward-Jackson
An online Zoom talk, free for PSSA Members. £4.00 for non-members (join the PSSA).
Free tickets and charged tickets book via EVENTBRITE.
PSSA Live Visit to Hintze Galleries at V&AConcluded
Friday 1 July 2022 at 6.30pm
PSSA visit to the Sculpture Galleries at the V&A to hear Sokari Douglas Camp’s presentation of her installation, ‘ Europe supported by Africa and America, and to look at the display of historical sculpture in the gallery with the former Senior Curator of Sculpture, Holly Trusted.
A free PSSA event.
Please assemble for 6.30pm in front of Canova’s Three Graces, Room 22, Hintze Galleries, Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington.
Sokari Douglas Camp, 'Cross we bear'
Discovering Women Sculptors – Spring, Series ThreeConcluded
Tuesday 7 June 6.30pm
‘Palpable Art ‘: the sculptural career of Sokari Douglas Camp CBE
The sculptor discusses her work.
An online Zoom talk, free for PSSA Members. £4.00 for non-members (join the PSSA).
Free tickets and charged tickets book via Eventbrite.
Caroline Shawk Brooks, A study in butter - The Awakening of Iolanthe
Discovering Women Sculptors – Spring, Series ThreeConcluded
Wednesday 15 June at 6.30pm
Between fat lions and dairy girls. The Butter sculpture of Caroline Shawk Brooks by Dr. Anna Frasca-Rath
An online Zoom talk, free for PSSA Members. £4.00 for non-members (join the PSSA).
Free tickets and charged tickets book via Eventbrite.
Ola Cohn carving Fairies' Tree, Fitzroy Gardens, Melbourne
Discovering Women Sculptors – Spring, Series ThreeConcluded
Tuesday 31 May at 8pm
Pioneer Woman: The extraordinary life of Australian sculptor Ola Cohn (1892-1964)
by Dr Barbara Lemon
An online Zoom talk, free for PSSA Members. £4.00 for non-members (join the PSSA).
Free tickets and charged tickets book via Eventbrite.
Scott Sutherland (1910-1984) , The Commando Memorial, Spean Bridge, Scotland with Ben Nevis in the background. Photo: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
Public Sculpture in Britain 1945-1980 WebinarConcluded
Saturday 21 May 2022
Public Sculpture in Britain 1945-1980
An online webinar via Zoom free for PSSA, SSAH and AAH members.
£5 for non-members.
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The Pinwill Sisters, Bench End of Choir Stallat Plympton St Mary Devon
Discovering Women Sculptors – Spring, Series ThreeConcluded
Tuesday 10 May at 6.30pm
The Remarkable Pinwill Sisters
by Dr Helen Wilson
An online Zoom talk, free for PSSA Members. £4.00 for non-members (join the PSSA).
Free tickets and charged tickets book via Eventbrite.
Jacob Epstein (1880 –1959), First Portrait of Roma of Barbados (detail), c. 1932, bronze, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (M.1-1945)
Database presentation: Black People in European Sculpture, 1450 to the present dayConcluded
Wednesday 4 May 2022 18:30
Database presentation: Black People in European Sculpture, 1450 to the present day by Dr Victoria Avery FSA
An online Zoom presentation and discussion, PSSA Members Free, £4.00 for non-members (join the PSSA).
Free tickets and charged tickets book via Eventbrite.
Discovering Women Sculptors – Spring, Series ThreeConcluded
Thursday 21 April at 5.30pm
Sculpting A Life: Chana Orloff Between Paris and Tel Aviv
by Professor Paula J. Birnbaum
An online Zoom talk, free for PSSA Members. £4.00 for non-members (join the PSSA).
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Marcello (1836-79)
Discovering Women Sculptors – Spring, Series ThreeConcluded
Tuesday 19 April at 6.30pm
Marcello (1836-79): Making a career in sculpture as a woman in the mid-19th century
by Magnus von Wistinghausen
An online Zoom talk, free for PSSA Members. £4.00 for non-members (join the PSSA).
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Gillian Forbes, Marble Hands.
Exhibition and Talks: Art & OrnamentConcluded
Exhibition: Friday 15 April - Monday 18 April 2022, Talks: Friday 15 April 2022
Dalkeith Palace, Dalkeith Country Park, Dalkeith, Edinburgh EH22 1ST, Scotland.
Find further information and book tickets here
Ella Casella, Woman in Renaissance Costume, 1890-1900, A.18-1996, © Victoria and Albert Museum, London (Bequeathed by E. J. Pyke in 1996, c/o Bird and Bird Solicitors, London)
Discovering Women Sculptors – Spring, Series ThreeConcluded
Tuesday 12 April at 6.30pm
Waxing and waning: the Casella sisters and the revival of Renaissance-style wax portraits
by Dr Amy Mechowski
An online Zoom talk, free for PSSA Members. £4.00 for non-members (join the PSSA).
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Elisabet Ney at work in her Austin studio Formosa circa 1895
Discovering Women Sculptors – Spring, Series ThreeConcluded
Tuesday 5 April at 6.30pm
Elisabet Ney: Art for Humanity’s Sake
by Lindsay Barras
An online Zoom talk, free for PSSA Members. £4.00 for non-members (join the PSSA).
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Lady Henrietta Finch, Bust of her Sister, Lady Elizabeth Finch (detail of signature), after Louis- François Roubiliac, 1741, marble, A.1-2013, © Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Workshop: Tender Hands and Rough Stone. Sculpture’s Stereotypes of Gender and MakingConcluded
Tuesday 5 April 2022 & Wednesday 6 April 2022
Workshop:Tender Hands and Rough Stone. Sculpture’s Stereotypes of Gender and Making
Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Institut für Kunstgeschichte
Mediathek, Orangerie, Schlossgarten 1, 91054 Erlangen
Zoom link
Free Online Event
Lady Henrietta Finch, Bust of her Sister, Lady Elizabeth Finch (detail of signature), after Louis- François Roubiliac, 1741, marble, A.1-2013, © Victoria and Albert Museum, London
A Blind Spot: Early Modern Women Sculptors (1550-1850)Concluded
Monday 4 April 2022 at 6.30pm
A Blind Spot: Early Modern Women Sculptors (1550-1850)
by Dr Anna Frasca-Rath
An online Zoom lecture.
Free tickets book via Eventbrite.
Grinling Gibbons, King Charles II, 1685–86, gilded brass, statue approx. h. 2.29m. Royal Hospital, Chelsea, London
Talk: Grinling Gibbons, Master Sculptor and Carver in WoodConcluded
Wednesday 30 March 2022 at 6.30pm
Grinling Gibbons, Master Sculptor and Carver in Wood: his training, workshop and links with the Quellinus family
by Ada de Wit
An online Zoom talk, PSSA Members Free, £4.00 for non-members (join the PSSA).
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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 onwardsConcluded
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 (1910-1984) , The Commando Memorial, Spean Bridge, Scotland with Ben Nevis in the background. Photo: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
CALL FOR PAPERSConcluded
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
Discovering Women Sculptors – Autumn Series TwoConcluded
Tuesday 30 November 2021 (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).
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The Spirit of the Crusaders (detail) for Paisley Memorial
Discovering Women Sculptors – Autumn Series TwoConcluded
Tuesday 23 November 2021 (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).
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Mary Spencer Watson in her studio
Discovering Women Sculptors – Autumn Series TwoConcluded
Tuesday 16 November 2021 (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).
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School of Art Wood Carving Workshop, c. 1927-8.
Discovering Women Sculptors – Autumn Series TwoConcluded
Tuesday 9 November 2021 (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).
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Mary Gillick: Cast medal of Ida Wylie, 1918, British Museum.
Discovering Women Sculptors – Autumn Series TwoConcluded
Tuesday 2 November 2021 (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).
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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 2021 (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).
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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
Clare Sheridan, Mountain Horse, 1937, plaster cast. Hastings Museum and Art Gallery.
Discovering Women Sculptors – Autumn Series TwoConcluded
Tuesday 19 October 2021 (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).
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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 2021 (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).
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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 2021 (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).
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Barbara Hepworth's 'Turning Forms' at the Festival of Britain 1951.
Discovering Women Sculptors – Autumn Series TwoConcluded
Tuesday 28 September 2021 (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).
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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 2021 (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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Maria Faydherbe (1587-1643) Virgin and Child, alabaster, c.1630-40, Victoria and Albert Museum
Discovering Women Sculptors – Autumn Series TwoConcluded
Tuesday 14 September 2021 (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.
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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 2021 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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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 2021 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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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 2021 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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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 2021 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.
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.