PRACTICE AND IDENTITY: WOMEN, SCULPTURE AND PLACE
The Dorich House Annual Conference Series. No. 6

THURSDAY 13TH AND FRIDAY 14TH MAY 2004
Venue: The Lawley Lecture theatre, Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames,
London

This two day conference is hosted by the Faculty of Art Design & Music of
Kingston University in association with the research department of the Henry
Moore Institute. It will investigate how intersections of place, practice and
identity can re-configure the complex histories of the work and careers of
twentieth-century women sculptors. Papers will look at the growing status of
women in art societies in Europe and the US; sculpture education and the
gendering of work and technique; travel and the nomadic careers of émigré
sculptors; the fabrication of artistic identities and concepts of craft;
creativity and interiority, and the construction and critique of 'feminist
sculpture'.

Speakers will include Ann Compton, Martha Buskirk, Alexandra Keiser, Liliane
Lijn, Fran Lloyd, Sue Malvern, Jan Marsh, Claudine Mitchell, Gill Perry, Helen
Potkin, Marjan Sterckx, Hester Westley and Gillian Whiteley. Sessions will be
chaired by Penelope Curtis, Fran Lloyd, Joy Sleeman, Andrew Stephenson,
Jonathan Vickery and Alison Yarrington. Jemima and Dolly Brown will also be
in attendance.

Dorich House, the former home and studio of the sculptor Dora Gordine
(1898-1991), was restored by Kingston University in 1994. The house, its
collection of Gordine's sculpture and the Imperial Russian art collection will
be open free to delegates during the conference.

Tickets £125, Students £50 including lunch/refreshments and evening reception
(bursaries available). To Book telephone or e-mail Nina Hunt, Short Course
Administrator, Tel: 020 8547 7066, Kingston University, Knights Park, Kingston
upon Thames, KT1 2QJ or e-mail shortcourse.designkingston.ac.uk.. For
enquiries about bursaries, please contact Jonathan Wood by e-mail :
jonwhenry-moore.ac.uk
For enquiries about conference papers please contact B.martinkingston.ac.uk