Sculptural Mobilities
Symposium Programme

Organised Collaboratively by Kingston University's Visual and Material
Culture Research Centre and University College London's Department of
Scandinavian Studies
Supported by the Henry Moore Foundation

Venue:
University College London, Bloomsbury

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TUESDAY 2 JULY - PRE-EVENT

7.30pm
Screening and Social
Location: Wilkins Gustav Tuck Lecture Theatre, UCL
Thorvaldsen (1949) by Carl Theodor Dreyer
Screening and lecture by Dr Claire Thomson, Lecturer in Scandinavian
Film and Head of UCL Scandinavian Studies
The film screening will be followed by an informal reception in the
Wilkins North Cloisters, UCL


WEDNESDAY 3 JULY 2012

Sculptural Mobilities Symposium
Location: Wilkins Haldane Room, UCL

9.00am-9.30pm
Introduction and Welcome
Dr Sara Ayres and Dr Elettra Carbone
Dr Claire Thomson and Professor Fran Lloyd

9.30am-11.00am
Panel 1: Courtly Patronage and Sculptural Mobilities

Dr Francesco Freddolini, Assistant Professor of Art History at Luther
College, University of Regina, Canada
Denmark and the International Mobility of Italian Sculpture, c.
1709-1725

Cynthia Osiecki, PhD Fellow, Interdisciplinary Research Training Group
'Baltic Borderlands' at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität, Greifswald
The Import of Flemish Sculpture into Sweden's Courts in the Second half
of the Sixteenth Century

Dr Kristoffer J Neville, Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Technical
University in Berlin
A Gothic Neptune. Georg Labenwolff's Sculpture for the Danish Court,
1575-1583

11.00am-11.30am
Coffee break

11.30am-1.00pm
Panel 2: Danish Myth, Italian Maestro: The Unveiling of Bertel
Thorvaldsen

Stig Miss, Director of The Thorvaldsen Museum
The Making of Sculptural Awareness in Copenhagen: The Contribution of
the Works of Thorvaldsen

Dr Elettra Carbone, Teaching Fellow in Norwegian, University College
London
Reading Sculpture: The Remediation of Thorvaldsen's Sculpture in Printed
Culture

Professor David Bindman, the Emeritus Durning-Lawrence Professor of the
History of Art, University College London
The Original Drawings for Thiele's biography of Thorvaldsen in the UCL
Library

1.00pm – 2.00pm
Lunch break

During the lunch break there will be time to view the one-day exhibition
Rediscovered: Unique Thorvaldsen Portfolios held by UCL Special
Collections alongside Karin Lowenadler's Standing Male Nude (1936)
Location: UCL Art Museum


2.00pm-3.30pm
Panel 3: Post-War Sculptural Exchange between Britain and the Nordic
Region

Professor Frances A Lloyd, Associate Dean Research & Enterprise, Faculty
of Art, Design & Architecture, Kingston University
"Back in from the Cold": Karin Jonzen's Commissions for the World Health
Organisation

Christina Brandberg, PhD Candidate, University of Hull
Henry Moore in the Nordic Countries: the first two one-man-shows in 1952

Dr Sara Ayres, Postdoctoral Researcher, Faculty of Art Design and
Architecture, Kingston University
Transfiguring Memorials in Norway and Britain

3.30pm-4.00pm
Coffee break

4.00pm-5.30pm
Panel 4: Curatorial Mobilities

Linda Hinners, Curator of Paintings and Sculpture, National Museum,
Stockholm: Establishing a Platform for National Sculpture Production:
The Recruitment of French Sculptors to Sweden during the Seventeenth and
Eighteenth Centuries

Dr Liisa Lindgren, Senior Curator, Parliament of Finland, Helsinki
Sculpture Hand in Glove with Architecture: The Sculpture Collection at
the Finnish Parliament

Dr Marjorie Trusted, Senior Curator of Sculpture, V&A
Medieval Scandinavia and Victorian South Kensington


5.30pm-6.00pm
Concluding Remarks and Final Discussion
Chaired by Dr Marjorie Trusted

6.00pm-7.00pm
Drinks and Networking
Location: Wilkins Haldane Room, UCL

7.00pm-9.30pm
Conference Dinner for Speakers and Guests
Location: Wilkins Terrace Restaurant, UCL