Creative Encounters. Art in the Archives
Annual Conference of The British Records Association (BRA) 2020,
Thursday 23 April 2020 at The Gallery, 77 Cowcross Street, London EC1M 6EL

Programme :

09.45 Registration and coffee

10.15 WELCOME

10.30 Alexia Kirk, Archivist, Archive of Art and Design, V&A: Researching, residing, making: historians and practitioners in the archive

11.00 Charlotte Brunskill, Archivist, Records & Data Protection Manager, and Jenny Hill, Assistant Archivist & Records Manager, the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art: Brian Sewell: art historian, celebrity, ‘Outsider’ – conflicting identities in the Archive

11.30 Victoria Lane, Library & Archive Manager, Shakespeare’s Globe: Stuff, Box, Archive: working with contemporary artists on their archives

12.00 – 12.30 Questions and discussion

12.30 BUFFET LUNCH

13.30 Mark Pomeroy, Archivist, Royal Academy of Arts: A peek behind the red velvet curtain - hunting for the real Sir Thomas Lawrence

14.00 Toby Treves, Author, Publisher and Curator, Modern Art Press: Provenance research and the catalogue raisonné: Peter Lanyon

14.30 Dr Giorgia Bottinelli, Curator of Historic Art, Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery: John Crome: The quiet modern

15.00 – 15.30 Questions and discussion

15.30 BREAK FOR TEA OR COFFEE

16.00 Panel Session: Archives and art: Interactions

The panel will consider the question: If it exists at all, where does the boundary between art and document lie?

• Alan Crookham, The National Gallery Research Centre [Chair]

• Sir Charles Saumarez Smith, Chairman of the Royal Drawing School

• Michael Takeo Magruder, Artist & Researcher: Remixing the Archive

• Sarah Haylett, Tate: Active Archives at Tate

• Emilie Cloos, The National Archives

17.00 END OF CONFERENCE

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