DEADLINE: 1 September 2004

Sculpture and Design

A symposium at the Faculty of Arts and Architecture, University of
Brighton

14-15th January 2005

The relationship between sculpture and design is relatively unexplored
but a potentially rich field for interdisciplinary attention. The notion
that an appreciation of formal values in sculpture would lead to an
equivalent ability to recognise well-designed goods of manufacture has
its roots in the 19th century. This view was taken forward in subsequent
decades by pioneering educational programmes, by cultural commentators
and by critics positing a direct relationship between modern sculpture
and mass-produced items of everyday use. Making for the market - whether
it comprises buyers of art objects or consumer goods - artists and
industrial designers have shared education, materials, skills and
processes. While artists have explored the sculptural resonances of
industrial and three-dimensional design, so designers have appropriated
the forms, language and discourse of sculpture. Into the 21st century,
sculptural values have continued to shift and sculpture has colonised
domestic space, the workplace and the social environment; industrial
design and functional objects now the gallery. >From the earliest ready-
mades to multiples, the mass-produced has found itself re-located, re-
displayed and re-interpreted.

This symposium seeks to explore the relationship between sculpture and
design and sculptors and designers. It will consider aspects of
education, authorship, making and manufacture, display, consumption and
critical reception.

The organisers, Catherine Moriarty (University of Brighton) and Gillian
Whiteley (Loughborough University School of Art and Design), invite
proposals for papers which address these themes. Abstracts, no longer
than 400 words, should be sent electronically to g.whiteleylboro.ac.uk
<mailto:g.whiteleylboro.ac.uk> or c.moriartybrighton.ac.uk
<mailto:c.moriartybton.ac.uk> by 1 September 2004.

Supported by the University of Brighton and Loughborough University
School of Art and Design.