The Sixth Fairfax House Symposium in Georgian Studies
Rethinking the Genius of Grinling Gibbons
The sixth Fairfax House Symposium in Georgian Studies has announced it’s programme of speakers.
The symposium, held in conjunction with the exhibition ‘The Genius of Grinling Gibbons’ at Fairfax House, and in partnership with the History of Art department at the University of York, aims to stimulate new thinking and new perspectives on the life, work, legacy, and significance of Grinling Gibbons, master carver of Restoration England.
The programme of speakers will include:
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Ada de Witt, The Wallace Collection
English and Dutch woodcarving in the age of Grinling Gibbons
GUEST SPEAKER: David Luard, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Woodwork Conservator and specialist in the carving of Grinling Gibbons
Grinling Gibbons: Observations of a Conservator
PRESENTERS
Elin Bornemann, Collections Officer, Abingdon County Hall Museum
The Grinling Gibbons mirror at Abingdon Museum – what we know and what we don’t know
Dr Lucy Cutler, Independent researcher and art historian
Gibbons and Dutch Still Life Painting
Charlotte Davis, PhD candidate, History of Art, The University of York
Rediscovering the ‘inventor et sculpsit’ of Restoration carved art
Amy Harris, PhD candidate at The University of York and Tate Britain
Carving After Gibbons: Francis Chantrey’s Holkham Woodcocks, 1829
Dr Claudine van Hensbergen, Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century English Literature at Northumbria University
‘That Matchless Statue of His Majesty’: Gibbons’ statue of Charles II for the Royal Exchange, London (1684)
Dr Sally Jeffery, Independent architectural and garden historian
Grinling Gibbons’s chimneypiece commissions for the Duchess of Buccleuch
Harriet Lewars, City & Guilds of London Art School
The colour and discolouring of wood carving
Emelia Quinn, DPhil candidate, University of Oxford
Still Life and Still Live: Grinling Gibbons’s Struggling Birds
Dr Jeanne Nuechterlein, Reader, University of York
‘Subject’ and ‘ornament’ in the work of Grinling Gibbons and 16th-century German sculptors
Dr Frances Sands, Curator of Drawings and Books, Sir John Soane’s Museum
Grinling Gibbons as a master of two dimensions
Dr Greg Sullivan, Curator, British Art 1750–1830, Tate Britain
Tony Webb, Retired Master Carver of St Paul’s Cathedral
The last of the big studio workshops
Dr Cordula van Wyhe, Senior Lecturer in History of Art, The University of York
Dead Meat in Focus: Gibbon’s garland in the drawing room at Sudbury Hall, Staffordshire
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Location
The Hilton Hotel, York
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