Sculpture and Design Symposium

Supported by The British Academy, University of Brighton Faculty of Arts and Architecture, The Henry Moore Foundation, Loughborough University School of Art and Design.

Conference Programme

Introduction to Sculpture and Design

Dr Catherine Moriarty (University of Brighton) and Gillian Whiteley (Loughborough University School of Art and Design)

Throughout the twentieth century and into the present, sculptural values and design imperatives have shifted. Artists have explored the sculptural resonances of industrial and three-dimensional design while designers have appropriated the forms, language and discourse of sculpture. Sculpture has colonised domestic, industrial and social space whereas industrial design and functional objects now occupy the gallery. From the earliest ready-mades to contemporary multiples, the mass-produced has found itself re-located, re-displayed and re-interpreted. This symposium explored some of the connections between sculpture and design and sculptors and designers and to address aspects of education, authorship, making and manufacture, display, consumption and critical reception.

Keynote Presentation

Design doesn’t Move You Unless it’s a Bus (with apologies to David Hockney)

Barbara Bloemink Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York and curator of the exhibition 'Design and Art, Functional Objects from Donald Judd to Rachel Whiteread (10 Sept 2004 - 27 Feb 2005)

Other Papers

• Beyond the West to South Africa: Sculpture and Design in Rural South Africa, Marion Arnold (Loughborough University School of Art and Design)
• Finding the Tap-roots: Ceramic Sculpture in the USA in the 1930s, Cheryl Buckley (University of Northumbria at Newcastle)
• Domesticating Modern Sculpture in Postwar Britain, Robert Burstow (University of Derby)
• Redesigning Life/Sculpting Existence, Dan Cuffaro and Saul Ostrow (Cleveland Institute of Art, Ohio)
• Sculpture and Design: Signs of Equivalence, Penelope Curtis (Henry Moore Institute, Leeds)
• The Missing Link: Late Victorian Sculpture, Modern Abstract Art and 20th Century Design, Anja Silke Gerritzen (Heinrich-Heine-University, Dusseldorf)
• Creative Commonality in the Work of N55, Craig Martin (Surrey Institute of Art and Design, University College)
• Fashion and Sculpture: Exploring Parallels and Interactions at FAB, Nicky Ryan (University of the Arts, London)
• Ikonography, Cybernetics and the Designed ‘Shell’: Paolozzi’s Sculpture, Late 1950s, Jennifer Way (University of North Texas)
• Painter or Decorator? Sculptor or Hewer? Architect or Constructor?: Some Complexities of Design Collaboration and Authorship, Paris 1913, Jane Riches (University of East London)
• From Socialist Aspiration to Bourgeois Consumption: Design, Sculpture and the Crafts in Italy 1946-1956 Jonathan Woodham (Centre for Research & Development, University of Brighton)
• Art Physiology Standardizing Production and Experiencing Art and Industrial Objects, Franziska Uhlig (independent scholar, Berlin)