Study Days 2024 Forty Years of Art and Art History in Scotland, 1984-2024

Scottish Society for Art History in partnership with Art UK, National Galleries Scotland and Visual Arts Scotland
Study Day 2024

Forty Years of Art and Art History in Scotland, 1984-2024
Pleasance Theatre, Edinburgh
1-2 March 2024

Friday 1st March Study Day tickets: Eventbrite
Friday 1st March, pre-booked tours: Eventbrite
Saturday 2nd March Study Day tickets: Eventbrite

Programme

Day 1 – Friday 1 March

09.30-09.55 Registration in the Cabaret Bar, including refreshments

10.00-10.15 Welcome and introductions: Claire Robinson, Scottish Society for Art History; Aimee Murphy, Art UK; Tavienne Bridgwater, Visual Arts Scotland

10.15-10.45 Keynote presentation – Professor Duncan Macmillan FRSA FRSE HRSA
Reflections on autobiography: David Wilkie’s Letter of Introduction

10.45-10.50 Questions

10.50-11.00 Short break, no refreshments

Session 1: Celebrating Anniversaries – chaired by Freya Spoor, National Galleries Scotland

11.00-11.20 Carla van de Puttelaar, Art Historian and Artist
The Journal of the Scottish Society for Art History: 28 years of documenting and celebrating research on Scottish Art

11.20-11.30 Grania Diver, National Galleries Scotland
Eduardo Paolozzi’s archive at National Galleries Scotland: then and now

11.30-11.50 Kam Chan, Visual Arts Scotland
Then and Now: 100 years of Visual Arts Scotland

11.50-12.10 Alice Strang, Curator and Art Historian
Beyond the Scottish Colourists: John Duncan Fergusson at 150

12.10-12.30 Hildegarde Berwick, Art Historian
Not Just a Craft or Profession: Bet Low and J D Fergusson

12.30-12.50 Discussion and questions

12.50-13.40 Lunch break

Session 2: Curating Scottish Art Collections – chaired by Alice Strang, Curator and Art Historian

13.40-14.00 Anne Dulau Beveridge, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow
Curating Scottish Art at The Hunterian

14.00-14.10 Struan Watson, University of St Andrews Museums
Boswell Collection at the University of St Andrews

14.10-14.20 Matthew Jarron, University of Dundee Museums
30 years of art collecting and exhibiting at the University of Dundee

14.20-14.30 Tilly Heydon, Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Trust
The photography archive of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham

14.30-14.40 Kirsty MacNab, Curator and Freelance Heritage Professional
The Argyll Collection Reconnected

14.40-15.00 Discussion and questions

15.00-15.30 Break, refreshments provided

Optional events:
Tours of Paolozzi at 100, Modern 2, National Galleries Scotland. Two tours available:
• 4pm tour – delegates will depart from the venue at 3.30pm. Taxi travel will be provided from the Pleasance Theatre to Modern 2, National Galleries Scotland
• 4.15pm tour – delegates will depart from the venue at 3.45pm. Taxi travel will be provided from the Pleasance Theatre to Modern 2, National Galleries Scotland 15.30-16.30

Tours of Visual Arts Scotland Centenary exhibition at the Royal Scottish Academy. Two tours available:
• 4pm tour – delegates will depart from the venue at 3.40pm. Taxi travel will be provided from the Pleasance Theatre to the RSA
• 4.15pm tour – delegates will depart from the Pleasance Theatre at 3.30pm and walk to the RSA. Free option


Day 2 – Saturday 2 March

09.30-09.55 Registration in the Cabaret Bar, including refreshments

10.00-10.10 Welcome

Session 1: New Technologies – Carla van de Puttelaar, Art Historian and Artist

10.10-10.20 Rhona Taylor, Art UK
Telling the story of Scottish art through the unique digital resource of Art UK

10.20-10.30 Marianne Fossaluzza, Heritage professional and PhD candidate at the University of Aberdeen
From glass to pixels: The digitisation and research of E A Hornel’s photographic collection

10.30-10.40 Discussion and questions

Session 2: Institutions and Organisations – Aimee Murphy, Art UK

10.40-11.00 Kirsteen Macdonald, Curator and Researcher
A typology of self-organisation in Scotland

11.00-11.20 Anna McLauchlan, University of Strathclyde, and Cicely Farrer, Hospitalfield
Learning from Scotland’s changing landscape of arts residencies

11.20-11.30 Discussion and questions

11.30-11.40 Short break, no refreshments

Session 3: Developments in Artistic Practice – Kam Chan

11.40-12.00 Annis Fitzhugh, Dundee Contemporary Arts
Invest in Love: prints by Alberta Whittle, 2020-2023

12.00-12.10 Anne Daffertshofer, PhD candidate at University of St Andrews
Between singing and deep listening: exploring interspecies kinship in Mhairi Killin’s On Sonorous Seas and Hanna Tuulikki’s Seals’kin

12.10-12.20 Discussion and questions

12.20-13.20 Lunch break

Session 4: Art History and Nationality – chaired by Matthew Jarron, University of Dundee Museums

13.20-13.40 Hans Hönes, University of Aberdeen
A discipline in crisis: art history in Scotland, 1982-1992

13.40-14.00 Murdo Macdonald, University of Dundee
Writing nationality and art

14.00-14.10 Discussion and questions

Session 5: Art History and Gender – Shona Elliott, Aberdeen Archives, Gallery & Museums

14.10-14.20 Kirstin Mackinnon, Artist
Forty years’ progress on gender equality in contemporary Scottish painting

14.20-14.35 Mattea Gernentz, Curator and Poet
Greater vision: the evolving display of 20th-century Scottish women artists

14.35-14.45 Discussion and questions

14.45-15.15 Break, refreshments provided

15.15-15.45 Panel discussion – chaired by Shona Elliott, Aberdeen Archives, Gallery & Museums
Forty Years of Art History in Scotland, 1984-2024 – what were the main challenges and opportunities over the last forty years, and what will the next forty years bring?
Panel: Elizabeth Cumming, Art Historian; Duncan Macmillan, Art Historian; and Helen Scott, City Art Centre, Edinburgh

15.45-15.50 Close

Please note:
We would like to kindly request that no nuts or nut-based products are consumed in the venue in the interests of the health of a delegate who has a severe nut allergy.

Attendees who have selected the catered option will be served refreshments and lunch in the Cabaret Bar on the ground floor.