PMC Events and Recordings 2024 Wrap-Up 

We began the year with Griselda Pollock’s research seminar Feminism Meets Art History 1944/2024:  Helen Rosenau’s Monumental Woman in Art, Then and Now celebrating the publication of Woman in Art: Helen Rosenau’s ‘Little Book’ of 1944.

Followed by Grace Aneiza Ali joined by Ben Bowling for Frank Bowling: The Mother’s House Paintings.

We then held Space | Time | Life: A Gathering at the Wysing Arts Centre in early February; whilst we have a recording of this event we must apologise about the quality of it. This tied in with the exhibition Making New Worlds: Li Yuan-chia & Friends.

In late February the author of Building Greater Britain, Alex Bremner hosted Why Edwardian Baroque Architecture Matters: Empire, Identity, and Geo-political Rivalry.

Through March we held a number of hands-on in-person workshops on the theme Gender and Cloth, which were not recorded but more details can be found again on our past event pages.

Our research seminar series continued with A Body for Stubbs hosted by Iris Moon, a PMC-supported author of Melancholy Wedgwood (MIT Press, 2024).

Extractivism/Activism: Art, Activism and Ecological Extraction took place in mid-March at The Building Centre and online, which hosted twenty-nine speakers and as a result we have a playlist of eight recordings from this conference.

Our final research seminar of the spring season was Cosmetics, Beauty and the Nature of Renaissance Women with Jill Burke.

The summer season of research seminars Out to Sea, focused on the influence of oceans and their coasts, in relation to Britain and its global empire, on visual and architectural imagination and production. It began with Ann Elias, Morgan Daniels discussing Deep Sea Divers Below the City: The Case of Sydney Harbour.

This was followed by Ocean Liners in Interwar London: Art and Performance with Faye Hammill and Bruce Peter.

June saw the continuation of our summer research seminar series with Global Houses of the Efik with Louis Nelson and Shaheen Alikhan.

We also held the Angelica Kauffman Symposium in partnership with the Royal Academy of Arts but this was not recorded.

Our penultimate research seminar in our summer series was Not Just for Sailors Any More: Maritime Tattooing in Context with Matt Lodder and Gemma Angel. Followed by the final seminar in the series Naval Gazing: Portraiture and the Royal Navy with Katherine Gazzard and Sara Caputo.

The autumn season of events began with Shining Lights: Photography Symposium at the V&A Museum of which there are five recordings to watch.

Our autumn series of research seminars began with Maps, Malaria and the Visual Construction of Early Hong Kong with Christopher Cowell followed by The Body of the Maharani: Portraiture, Gender and Empire at the Royal Academy 1791–1865 with author ofVan Dyck and the Making of English Portraiture, Adam Eaker.

In November we held the research seminar and film screening event The Lives and Legacies of Black Women Ceramicists with Jareh Das, Isis Dove-Edwin, Bisila Noha and Ozioma Onuzulike.

We also marked the completion of the Pevsner guides with Celebrating Pevsner: Reflections on the Completion of the Buildings of England with Charles O'Brien and Simon Bradley.

In late November we saw Gary Boyd discuss Evoking the Coalscape, followed by our two-day conference: “What Light Through Yonder Window Breaks?”: The Window as Protagonist in British Architecture and Visual Culture, which hosted twenty-two speakers at the PMC and The Warburg Institute: resulting in 8 recordings.

Griselda Pollock joined us again for a memorial lecture On the Edge/In the Place/With the Earth: Judith Tucker, Painter and More.

Our final research seminar of the year was with Matthew Reeve on Hands That Heal, Looks That Kill: Towards a Fabulous History of Marian Architecture.

We finished the year with a private view of artworks on display at PMC curated by Creative Debuts and completed our autumn events season with book night.

Please note, research lunches are not recorded and therefore are not mentioned in this write-up. All descriptions of our fifteen research lunches from 2024 can be found on our past events page. DRN, ECRN events as well as reading groups are also not recorded but again can be found on our past events page.

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