Scottish Society for Art History in partnership with Art UK, National Galleries Scotland and Visual Arts Scotland
Study Day 2024
Forty Years of Art and Art History in Scotland, 1984-2024
Pleasance Theatre, Edinburgh
1-2 March 2024
Friday 1st March Study Day tickets: Eventbrite
Friday 1st March, pre-booked tours: Eventbrite
Saturday 2nd March Study Day tickets: Eventbrite
Programme
Day 1 – Friday 1 March
09.30-09.55 Registration in the Cabaret Bar, including refreshments
10.00-10.15 Welcome and introductions: Claire Robinson, Scottish Society for Art History; Aimee Murphy, Art UK; Tavienne Bridgwater, Visual Arts Scotland
10.15-10.45 Keynote presentation – Professor Duncan Macmillan FRSA FRSE HRSA
Reflections on autobiography: David Wilkie’s Letter of Introduction
10.45-10.50 Questions
10.50-11.00 Short break, no refreshments
Session 1: Celebrating Anniversaries – chaired by Freya Spoor, National Galleries Scotland
11.00-11.20 Carla van de Puttelaar, Art Historian and Artist
The Journal of the Scottish Society for Art History: 28 years of documenting and celebrating research on Scottish Art
11.20-11.30 Grania Diver, National Galleries Scotland
Eduardo Paolozzi’s archive at National Galleries Scotland: then and now
11.30-11.50 Kam Chan, Visual Arts Scotland
Then and Now: 100 years of Visual Arts Scotland
11.50-12.10 Alice Strang, Curator and Art Historian
Beyond the Scottish Colourists: John Duncan Fergusson at 150
12.10-12.30 Hildegarde Berwick, Art Historian
Not Just a Craft or Profession: Bet Low and J D Fergusson
12.30-12.50 Discussion and questions
12.50-13.40 Lunch break
Session 2: Curating Scottish Art Collections – chaired by Alice Strang, Curator and Art Historian
13.40-14.00 Anne Dulau Beveridge, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow
Curating Scottish Art at The Hunterian
14.00-14.10 Struan Watson, University of St Andrews Museums
Boswell Collection at the University of St Andrews
14.10-14.20 Matthew Jarron, University of Dundee Museums
30 years of art collecting and exhibiting at the University of Dundee
14.20-14.30 Tilly Heydon, Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Trust
The photography archive of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham
14.30-14.40 Kirsty MacNab, Curator and Freelance Heritage Professional
The Argyll Collection Reconnected
14.40-15.00 Discussion and questions
15.00-15.30 Break, refreshments provided
Optional events:
Tours of Paolozzi at 100, Modern 2, National Galleries Scotland. Two tours available:
• 4pm tour – delegates will depart from the venue at 3.30pm. Taxi travel will be provided from the Pleasance Theatre to Modern 2, National Galleries Scotland
• 4.15pm tour – delegates will depart from the venue at 3.45pm. Taxi travel will be provided from the Pleasance Theatre to Modern 2, National Galleries Scotland 15.30-16.30
Tours of Visual Arts Scotland Centenary exhibition at the Royal Scottish Academy. Two tours available:
• 4pm tour – delegates will depart from the venue at 3.40pm. Taxi travel will be provided from the Pleasance Theatre to the RSA
• 4.15pm tour – delegates will depart from the Pleasance Theatre at 3.30pm and walk to the RSA. Free option
Day 2 – Saturday 2 March
09.30-09.55 Registration in the Cabaret Bar, including refreshments
10.00-10.10 Welcome
Session 1: New Technologies – Carla van de Puttelaar, Art Historian and Artist
10.10-10.20 Rhona Taylor, Art UK
Telling the story of Scottish art through the unique digital resource of Art UK
10.20-10.30 Marianne Fossaluzza, Heritage professional and PhD candidate at the University of Aberdeen
From glass to pixels: The digitisation and research of E A Hornel’s photographic collection
10.30-10.40 Discussion and questions
Session 2: Institutions and Organisations – Aimee Murphy, Art UK
10.40-11.00 Kirsteen Macdonald, Curator and Researcher
A typology of self-organisation in Scotland
11.00-11.20 Anna McLauchlan, University of Strathclyde, and Cicely Farrer, Hospitalfield
Learning from Scotland’s changing landscape of arts residencies
11.20-11.30 Discussion and questions
11.30-11.40 Short break, no refreshments
Session 3: Developments in Artistic Practice – Kam Chan
11.40-12.00 Annis Fitzhugh, Dundee Contemporary Arts
Invest in Love: prints by Alberta Whittle, 2020-2023
12.00-12.10 Anne Daffertshofer, PhD candidate at University of St Andrews
Between singing and deep listening: exploring interspecies kinship in Mhairi Killin’s On Sonorous Seas and Hanna Tuulikki’s Seals’kin
12.10-12.20 Discussion and questions
12.20-13.20 Lunch break
Session 4: Art History and Nationality – chaired by Matthew Jarron, University of Dundee Museums
13.20-13.40 Hans Hönes, University of Aberdeen
A discipline in crisis: art history in Scotland, 1982-1992
13.40-14.00 Murdo Macdonald, University of Dundee
Writing nationality and art
14.00-14.10 Discussion and questions
Session 5: Art History and Gender – Shona Elliott, Aberdeen Archives, Gallery & Museums
14.10-14.20 Kirstin Mackinnon, Artist
Forty years’ progress on gender equality in contemporary Scottish painting
14.20-14.35 Mattea Gernentz, Curator and Poet
Greater vision: the evolving display of 20th-century Scottish women artists
14.35-14.45 Discussion and questions
14.45-15.15 Break, refreshments provided
15.15-15.45 Panel discussion – chaired by Shona Elliott, Aberdeen Archives, Gallery & Museums
Forty Years of Art History in Scotland, 1984-2024 – what were the main challenges and opportunities over the last forty years, and what will the next forty years bring?
Panel: Elizabeth Cumming, Art Historian; Duncan Macmillan, Art Historian; and Helen Scott, City Art Centre, Edinburgh
15.45-15.50 Close
Please note:
We would like to kindly request that no nuts or nut-based products are consumed in the venue in the interests of the health of a delegate who has a severe nut allergy.
Attendees who have selected the catered option will be served refreshments and lunch in the Cabaret Bar on the ground floor.
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