9 September 2023
Saturday 9 September, 11am start
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A Study Day programmed to celebrate and inaugurate the opening of two new commissions – An Artists Influence: Re-thinking Paolozzi’s Archive with Emma Hart and Hardeep Pandhal. A day of discussion, presentation and workshop focusing on the role of Artists’ Archives in disseminating an artist’s work and influence.
Our key note speaker on the day will be Daniel F Herrmann, Curator of Modern & Contemporary Projects at the National Gallery London and Trustee of the Paolozzi Foundation who has worked with the artists to put together this exhibition. With contributions from artist and lecturer Neil Clements and artists Hardeep Pandhal and Emma Hart.
The Study Day will invite speakers and participants to explore the value of an artists’ archive beyond an artist’s life. How important are artists’ archives to future understandings of their work? What are the practical concerns for contemporary artists creating, organising and preserving their archives? How does an artists’ intention influence the interpretation and dissemination of an artist’s archive and art works?
For Hospitalfield, discussing and working through artists archives is vital to imagining and planning for our future. As an artist’s house and archive of the 19th century painter Patrick Allan Fraser, we interpret his vision through a contemporary prism, especially as we continue to grow public access to the art works and archives for many different audiences and artists through our Future Plan.
Timeline of the day
11am: Arrival and sign in
11.15am: Introduction to day by Director Lucy Byatt
11.25am: Introduction to commissions and working with ‘influence’ by Programme Manager Cicely Farrer
11.45am: 1965 Talk by Neil Clements. This talk will take 1965, the year Eduardo Paolozzi’s sculpture Rio was completed, as its starting point: a moment marked by significant shifts in popular culture, art and education. Using Paolozzi’s own concept of ‘multi-evocative’ imagery it will consider a number of registers on which this artwork might be interpreted. Neil Clements is an artist based in Glasgow. He is a Lecturer in the Fine Art Critical Studies department at the Glasgow School of Art.
12.45pm – 1pm: Break for lunch. We encourage you to visit the Garden and buy lunch from the Garden Cafe.
2pm: Keynote Talk by Daniel F Herrmann ‘Eduardo Paolozzi (1924-2005), Archives and Artists today’. Daniel F Herrmann is the Curator of Modern & Contemporary Projects at the National Gallery, London. He was previously Curator for the Paolozzi Collection at the National Galleries of Scotland. He has published on Eduardo Paolozzi and his use of materials, the artist’s relationship to Ludwig Wittgenstein, and his archival practice.
3 – 5pm: Printmaking workshop led by artist Sarah Gillespie– register to attend just the workshop, organised for all ages to attend.
5-7pm: Tour around the art works and celebratory drinks in Hospitalfield House. Open to everyone.
Images
1. Sir Eduardo Paolozzi Print, Wittgenstein in New York, for the Soho Jazz Festival in 1989
2. Hardeep Pandhal by Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert.
3. Emma Hart at ArtNightDundee DCThomson/Mhairi Edwards.
4. Detail from Emma Hart, Up Yours Wittgenstein, work in progress, 2023.
5. Detail from Rio by Sir Eduardo Paolozzi in the Garden at Hospitalfield. Courtesy of The Hunterian, University of Glasgow.
6. A portrait of Paolozzi by Rio.
7. Neil Clements. Riser after Myron Stout 2020. Courtesy of the artist.