CURRENT EVENTS

Autumn-Winter 2011

On 24th September Jane Wildgoose joins artist Daniel Boyd at Gasworks in South London to discuss his work, in an event entitled Souvenirs from Australia which accompanies Daniel's residency at the Natural History Museum.

On 3rd December Jane Wildgoose is giving a paper entitled 'The Dear Precious Relics & Hair' at the one day symposium Materials of Mourning: Death, Materiality and Memory in Victorian Britain, at York University.

Jane Wildgoose has been awarded a studentship by Kingston University and at the beginning of October she commenced practice-based PhD research in the School of Art & Design History, Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture, Kingston University.

Also from the beginning of October Jane Wildgoose is co-leading the Material Thinking & Creative Practice module, MA Museum & Gallery Studies/Heritage & Contemporary Practice at Kingston University, with Course Director Dr Duncan Grewcock, in association with the National Maritime Museum.

During Autumn/Winter 2011 Jane is continuing in her role as Keyholder of the Cabinet of Artists attached to Strandlines at King's College London.

CURRENT EVENTS

Spring-Summer 2011

At the beginning of the year Jane Wildgoose accepted an invitation to become "Keyholder" of a "Cabinet of Artists" contributing to the Strandlines project at King's College London. The first strand in a multi-part project, Strandlines aims to explore lives on the Strand past, present and creative. It is a JISC funded initiative organised by the Centre for Life-Writing Research, Centre for e-Research, Department of Geography, and King's College London Archives. On 18th April Jane takes part in a special Strandlines event at King's Old Anatomy Theatre with some of her colleagues in the cabinet of artists: songwriter/musician Julie McKee, poet Ruth O'Callaghan, and artists Lucy Steggals and Luce Choules. During the summer Jane joins the Strandlines team and members of the national 'SPICE' project for workshops at King's College London on 15th June, and at the Jericho Boatyard in Oxford on 26th-27th August.

During May Jane Wildgoose has been commissioned to undertake a period of research as consultant to the Wellcome Library.

On 13th May Jane Wildgoose gives a paper at the 'Pairings: Conversations, Collaboration, Materials' conference at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her paper, Collaboration in Practice: the evolution of Promiscuous Assemblage, Friendship, & The Order of Things, describes the process of collaboration that evolved over a two-year period of multi-disciplinary, inter-institutional collaboration with the Yale Center for British Art, the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University, and the Yale University Art Gallery, resulting in the site-specific installation Promiscuous Assemblage, Friendship, & The Order of Things, exhibited at the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, USA from Sept. 2009-July 2010. Pairings: Conversations, Collaboration, Materials is 'a two-day conference that seeks to make a significant contribution to expanding knowledge on collaborative practice in craft, design and art environments, with papers and discussions focusing on: collaboration within and across disciplines; good practice of how to work between institutions and collaborate with outside partners; collaborative exhibition curation; collaborative student projects; the influence of collaborative strategies on learning and teaching practice, and collaborative manifestos.'

On 24th May Jane Wildgoose is speaking about Promiscuous Assemblage, Friendship, & The Order of Things at a special event as part of Birkbeck College London Arts Week.

On 7th July Jane Wildgoose is a panel member at the artists' forum accompanying Deborah Padfield's exhibition Mask: Mirror: Membrane at the Menier Factory, London.

CURRENT EVENTS

Winter 2010 - Spring 2011

Life is Very Sweet, Jane Wildgoose's commission as a selected maker for Museumaker, at The Harley Gallery, Welbeck, Worksop, Notts, continues until Spring 2011.
Jane will be giving a talk about the work in the gallery on 19th March 2011.
Museumaker is a national programme to enable museums to work with leading contemporary makers and designers, supported by the Museum, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA), Renaissance in the Regions, and Arts Council England.
www.harleygallery.co.uk
www.museumaker.com

As an invited contributor to 'Inspired by Soane' at Sir John Soane's Museum, London, one of Jane Wildgoose's photographs of her installation 'Promiscuous Assemblage, Friendship, & The Order of Things' at the Museum is one of 200 donated 'art cards' to be sold anonymously in a ballot drawn at the Banqueting House on 7th October 2010, in aid of the Museum's 'Opening up the Soane' project.
Inspired by Soane

Jane Wildgoose joins a panel discussion about the Great War and Memory at King's College, London, on 27th October 2010, together with Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman, Dr Lawrence Napper, Rozanne Hawksley, and Harry Willis Fleming, as part of King's College's Arts & Humanities Week.
King's College's Arts & Humanities Week

The Wildgoose Memorial Library takes up temporary residence, in association with A Plan Projects, at Copped Hall in Epping Forest on 15th December 2010 - where visitors may discover more about the Library's singular history, and plans for its future development. As part of the project Jane is also working with Sabine Maurer, whose work as a florist she has been documenting for many years thebouquetcompany.com to devise an "immortelle" of living and fabricated flowers, in the cellars of Copped Hall - an enduringly beautiful 18thc century mansion which is currently undergoing restoration following decades of dereliction.
aplanprojects.com

Jane Wildgoose has accepted an invitation to be keynote speaker at the University of the Creative Arts' Student Research Conference for Mphil/PhD students, themed on 'Concept and context in practice', at the University of the Creative Arts, Farnham, on 16th March 2011.
Concept and Context in Practice conference