About this Event
Organised in collaboration with Gemma Shearwood and the University of York
Programme:
10:15 Welcome and Introduction
Dr Clare O’Dowd, Henry Moore Institute
Gemma Shearwood, University of York
10:30 Identities and Identification
Chaired by Ruth Spindlow, University of York
Dr Sarah Monks, independent
“Even their ashes”: The Monument to Mary Kendall and Lady Catherine Jones (c.1710), and Female Presence, Agency, and Romantic Friendship in Eighteenth-Century Westminster Abbey
Dr Charlotte Davis, University of York
Caught Between Monumental Traditions: Grinling Gibbons’ Shovell Monument
Gemma Shearwood, University of York
Redefining an Abolitionist: Conversations between the Caribbean, South Asia, and North America in the Earl Mansfield, Vice-Admiral Watson, and Earl Halifax Monuments c. 1760-1801
12pm Curation and Conservation
Chaired by Dr Sarah Burnage, Fairfax House
Professor Claudine van Hensbergen, University of Northumbria
Putting Poets in their Place: Thomas Sprat at Westminster Abbey, 1667-1713
Izabella Gill-Brown, University of York
Death Strokes: Thinking about the conservation of monuments through Roubiliac’s Nightingale Monument and how we might approach this
Dr Greg Sullivan, University of York
Sir Francis Chantrey’s ‘delicate and honourable conduct in all matters relating to the Abbey’ 1814-1841
1.30 – 2.30 LUNCH (provided)
Opportunity to view library display, featuring archival material relating to the monuments of Westminster Abbey
2.30 Reception and Reform
Chaired by Gemma Shearwood
Dr Marjorie Coughlan, University of York
Monument to Isaac Newton by William Kent and Michael Rysbrack (1730)
Sammi Lukic Scott, University of York
Sculpting the Eye: Experiencing Reproductions of Westminster Abbey’s Monuments:
Or… The Many Ceramic Lives of William Shakespeare
Michael Smith, University of York
From Memorial to museum piece? Flaxman’s monument to George Lindsay Johnstone
4pm Roundtable Plenary led by Professor Jason Edwards, University of York
5pm Finish
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Henry Moore Institute, 74 The Headrow, Leeds, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00
