PSSA Events
Kathe Kollwitz, Mother with Child over her Shoulder, pre 1917, bronze (posthumous cast from model).
Discovering Women Sculptors – Autumn, series five
Tuesday 10 October 2023 at 6.30pm
Käthe Kollwitz and the three dimensional: ‘Is my sculpture not simply transposed drawing?’ by Dr Annette Seeler
An online Zoom talk, free for PSSA Members. £3.50 for non-members (join the PSSA).
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Ivan Meštrović, Monument to Grgur Ninski on the Peristyle in Split in 1929 (photo: Svetozar Prodanović, Photo Archives of the Meštrović Atelier, Zagreb, FAM-957/40)
Sculptural Lineage: Masters and Pupils
Wednesday 11 October 2023 at 6.30pm
The tradition of the ‘Zagreb School of Sculpture’ – the influence of Ivan Meštrović on the monumental production of the interwar period in Central and Northern Europe by Dr Barbara Vujanović
An online Zoom talk, free for PSSA Members. £3.50 for non-members (join the PSSA).
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Augusta Savage, Lift Every Voice and Sing, 1939 (photo: public domain).
Discovering Women Sculptors – Autumn, series five
Tuesday 17 October at 6.30pm
Icons of the Harlem Renaissance: Augusta Savage’s Gamin and Lift Every Voice and Sing by Dr Theresa Leininger-Miller
An online Zoom talk, free for PSSA Members. £3.50 for non-members (join the PSSA).
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Alina Szapocznikow, Self Portrait, 1966, marble, polyester resin. Estate of Alina Szapocznikow/Piotr Stanislawski/Galerie Loevenbruck, Paris ©ADAGP Paris (photo: Gabrice Gouseet).
Discovering Women Sculptors – Autumn, series five
Tuesday 24 October 2023 at 6.30pm
The Sculptural Dissolutions of Alina Szapocznikow
by Professor Griselda Pollock
An online Zoom talk, free for PSSA Members. £3.50 for non-members (join the PSSA).
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William Reid Dick, Eagle on top of the Royal Air Force War Memorial, 1923, Victoria Embankment, London. Grade II.
Public Sculpture in Focus – Autumn series
Wednesday 25 October at 6.30pm
William Reid Dick. ‘The Glasca loon he works sae smart’. A Selection of his Public Sculpture by Dr Dennis Wardleworth
An online Zoom talk, free for PSSA Members. £3.50 for non-members (join the PSSA).
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Jane Poupelet, Bather, Périgueux Museum (photo: Claudine Mitchell).
Discovering Women Sculptors – Autumn series five
Tuesday 31 October 2023 at 6.30pm
Jane Poupelet: neoclassical nudes, female audience, and double-sided language
by Dr Claudine Mitchell
An online Zoom talk, free for PSSA Members. £3.50 for non-members ( join the PSSA).
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Elisabeth Frink, Riace Warriors, 1986-1989 © Frink Archive, Dorset History Centre, courtesy of Tully and Bree Jammet (photo: from Hauser & Wirth website: https://www.hauserwirth.com/resources/2678-elisabeth-frink-transformation/)
Discovering Women Sculptors – Autumn, series five
Tuesday 7 November 2023 at 6.30
‘You are what you do’: The life and sculpture of Elisabeth Frink by Wilfrid Wright
An online Zoom talk, free for PSSA Members. £3.50 for non-members (join the PSSA).
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Ivan Meštrović, Memorial to Indians for Chicago, Zagreb studio, under the statue, his brother Petar, 1926–1927. (Photo: Firšt, Photo Archives of the Meštrović Gallery, Split, FGM-220).
Public Sculpture in Focus – Autumn series
Wednesday 8 November 2023 at 6.30pm
Sculpture and Politics – Ivan Meštrović’s Monuments in Europe and the United States of America
by Dr Barbara Vujanović
An online Zoom talk, free for PSSA Members. £3.50 for non-members ( join the PSSA).
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The Tomb of Oscar Wilde, Père Lachaise Cemetery Paris, 1912 (photo: Evelyn Silber)
Public Sculpture in Focus – Autumn series
Tuesday 21 November 2023 at 6.30pm
From enfant terrible to grand old man: Jacob Epstein’s public sculpture
by Dr Evelyn Silber
An online Zoom talk, free for PSSA Members. £3.50 for non-members (join the PSSA).
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Helen Chadwick, courtesy of Richard Saltoun Gallery and The Estate of Helen Chadwick.
Discovering Women Sculptors – Autumn, series fiveConcluded
Wednesday 13 September 2023 at 6.30pm
If Not Now When?: Generations of Women in Sculpture in Britain, 1960 – 2022 by Dr Anna Frances Douglas and Dr Kerry Harker
An online Zoom talk, free for PSSA Members. £3.50 for non-members (join the PSSA).
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Emma Stebbins, Angel of the Waters, 1862-63. From the scrapbook of her sister, Mary Stebbins Garland.
Discovering Women Sculptors – Spring series fourConcluded
Tuesday 30 May 2023 at 6.30pm
Emma and the Angel of Central Park. The Story of a New York Icon and the Woman who Created It by Maria Teresa Cometto
An online Zoom talk, free for PSSA Members. £3.50 for non-members (join the PSSA).
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Monument to William Mulready designed by Godfrey Sykes. Central Avenue, Kensal Green Cemetery (photo: Terry Cavanagh).
Walking Tour of Kensal Green CemeteryConcluded
Sunday 21 May 2023 at 11am
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.
Donatello, Lamentation over the Dead Christ c. 1455-60 © Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
V&A Hybrid Conference: Donatello: workshops, patronage, revivalConcluded
Friday 19 May and Saturday 20 May 2023, 10.00 – 17.05
V&A Hybrid Conference: Donatello: workshops, patronage, revival
Hochhauser Auditorium, V&A South Kensington, Cromwell Road,London, SW7 2RL and online
Insightful 2-day conference offering opportunity to discuss the influences and lasting impact of the Renaissance sculptor Donatello.
https://www.vam.ac.uk/event/py81NNKMqJ/donatello-conference-may-2023
https://www.vam.ac.uk/event/97Z2ZekYG6/donatello-sculpting-the-renaissance-conference-online
Funeral Monument for Horatio Nelson, designed by Antonio Canova (1757-1822), drawn by Bernardino Nocchi (1741-1812), and etched & engraved by Pietro Fontana (1762-1837). Etching & engraving, ink on paper. Rome, Italy, 1811-13. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Antonio Canova and British Public SculptureConcluded
Thursday 18 May 2023 at 6.30pm
Antonio Canova and British Public Sculpture
by Dr Alessio Costarelli
An online Zoom talk, free for PSSA Members. £3.50 for non-members (join the PSSA).
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Detail of Lee Bontecou, Untitled, 1998 on catalogue cover of 2003 Bontecou retrospective.
Discovering Women Sculptors – Spring series fourConcluded
Friday 12 May 2023 at 6.30pm (rescheduled)
‘All Freedom in Every Sense’: The Work of Lee Bontecou by Elizabeth A.T. Smith
An online Zoom talk, free for PSSA Members. £3.50 for non-members (join the PSSA).
THIS TALK HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED NOW ON FRIDAY 12 MAY 2023, 6.30pm
If you previously registered to attend on 4 May, you will be sent a Zoom link for 12 May.
If you would like to register for the talk please contact office@pssauk.org
Passing of the Lilies Jerwood Solo Presentations, Jerwood Arts, London (Photo: Anna Arca)
Discovering Women Sculptors – Spring series fourConcluded
Thursday, 11 May 2023, 6.30pm
Emii Alrai in conversation with Harriet Cooper (Independent Curator, formerly Jerwood Arts) and Ruth Claxton (Eastside Projects)
An online Zoom talk and discussion, free for PSSA Members. £3.50 for non-members (join the PSSA).
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William Lamb's Studio
SSAH Talk and virtual tour – Inside the William Lamb Sculpture StudioConcluded
Tuesday 9 May 2023 at 7pm
Talk about William Lamb’s life and career, with virtual studio tour
Book via Eventbrite.
The Anglo-Belgian War Memorial, Place Poelaert, Brussels by Charles Sargeant Jagger (photo: Dennis Wardleworth)
The Anglo-Belgian Memorial in Brussels: An Expression of Gratitude, a Diplomatic Blunder, and a Protest Against War CrimesConcluded
Thursday 27 April 2023 at 6.30pm
The Anglo-Belgian Memorial in Brussels: An Expression of Gratitude, a Diplomatic Blunder, and a Protest Against War Crimes by Dr Dennis Wardleworth
An online Zoom talk, PSSA Members free, Non-members £3.50 (join the PSSA).
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Donatello, Lamentation over the Dead Christ c. 1455-60 © Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
Sculptural Lineage: Masters and PupilsConcluded
Tuesday 25 April 2023
Donatello: Sculpting the Renaissance and beyond
by Peta Motture and Whitney Kerr-Lewis
An online Zoom talk, free for PSSA Members. £3.50 for non-members (join the PSSA).
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