CURRENT EVENTS
Spring-Summer 2013
Katy Barrett's report on Jane Wildgoose and Mary Brooks's seminar Re-materialising Things at Cambridge University, in February, has been posted on the
Things - A CRASSH Seminar Series 2011-13 blog.
Jane Wildgoose will be speaking at Kingston University on 1st May, in a seminar entitled Cutting: On the Fabric of the Human Body hosted by fellow doctoral student Ninela Ivanova - with Rhian Solomon, Visual Artist and Director of SKINship; and Amy Congdon, PhD Researcher at Textile Futures Research Centre. The seminar is one of four
entitled Craftsmanship Reconsidered: framing, coding, cutting and unveiling, co-produced with Ninela Ivanova, Portia Ungley, Shaza Sabbagh and Karima Al-Shomely, as part of the series Colloquium: Conversations in Theory and Practice,
On 13th May Jane Wildgoose will be speaking at the Curious Exchange Seminar at Dulwich Library, chaired by Jane Millar.
Jane Wildgoose will also be exhibiting selected material from The Wildgoose Memorial Library in the Maddick Mausoleum at West Norwood Cemetery in Curious, a site-specific trail of 25 works, curated by Jane Millar during June-July 2013.
Meanwhile, Jane is continuing her practice-based PhD research entitled Collecting and Interpreting Human Skulls & Hair in Late 19th Century London: Passing Fables and Comparative Readings at The Wildgoose Memorial Library at Kingston University, where she was awarded a studentship in 2011.
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CURRENT EVENTS
Winter 2012 - Spring 2013
During January-February 2013 Jane Wildgoose and fellow doctoral students, Alexandra Reynolds, Annalisa Sonzogni and Eliza Tan, are co-producing
four seminars entitled Curatorial Bodies: Role, Space, Discipline and Public in Contemporary Practice
at Kingston University - the first part of a seminar series Colloquium: Conversations in Theory and Practice, which will continue through to May 2013.
On 16th January Jane will lead the first of the seminars: Managing, Mediating, Musing: Reflections on Historical Collecting
and Contemporary Practice, at Kingston University's Stanley Picker Gallery, in conversation with Jerzy Kierkuc-Bielinski,
Exhibitions Curator at Sir John Soane's Museum. Jane and Jerzy will be joined by Rachel Boak, Curator at Waddesdon Manor; Harry Willis Fleming,
Henry Moore Fellow 2012/13 and Founder, the Willis Fleming Historical Trust; Jane Millar, Artist and Curator of Curious at West Norwood Cemetery;
and Historian and independent Curator, Ruth Richardson - whose 1988 book Death, Dissection and the Destitute is undergoing something of an after-life as inspiration for the Museum of London's current exhibition Doctors, Dissection and Resurrection Men.
Jane Wildgoose has been invited to speak at Cambridge University on 19th February, at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH),
in a seminar entitled Re-materialising Things. Jane's paper, The Duchess threatens to produce me among
the antiquities, explores her commission from the Yale Center for British Art to devise a cabinet in celebration of the friendship
between Mary Delany (1700-1788) and Margaret, Duchess of Portland (1715-1785), in which she focused on aspects of the material culture of the two women's lives
that had either disintegrated or been dispersed. Jane is joined in a Conversation with broken things by Textile Conservator Mary Brooks, from Durham
University.
During March 2013 Jane Wildgoose is giving lectures on human remains in museums to Heritage Management students at Buckingham University; and on the role of art in death and mourning, to Medical Science/Biomedical Science, and Death, Autopsy and the Law students at Imperial College.
Meanwhile, Jane is continuing her practice-based PhD research entitled Collecting and Interpreting Human Skulls & Hair in Late 19th Century London: Passing Fables and Comparative Readings at The Wildgoose Memorial Library at Kingston University, where she was awarded a studentship in 2011.
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CURRENT EVENTS
Autumn-Winter 2012
Jane Wildgoose is indebted to long term patrons John and Barbara Furlong for their recent generous financial support which has provided comprehensive updating of the WML's IT facilities: in the form of a new computer and updated software. A very big thank you to John and Barbara for stepping in to save the digital day.
During October a group of students from UCL's History of Art Dept's new MA Inhabiting Art: Communes, Colonies, Squatting course will be making a site visit to the WML with Course Leader Petra Lange-Berndt.
At Petra Lange-Berndt's invitation Jane has contributed a posting, entitled The Doorkeeper at The Wildgoose Memorial Library: The Cat with Ten Lives to the Preserved! blog, which is related to the AHRC Research Network 'The Cultures of Preservation': in which taxidermists, artists, historians of art and science, curators, and institutions such as the Natural History Museum, the Hunterian Museum and the Grant Museum at UCL have been coming together 'to consider the hybrid nature of anatomical and zoological specimens, with regards to their aesthetics and to their cultural and political significances.'
On 22nd October Jane Wildgoose will be taking part in King's College London's Transforming the Strand: A Virtual Walking Tour in the Anatomy Theatre Museum, in her capacity as Keyholder of the Cabinet of Artists attached to the Strandlines
project.
Looking forward to 2013: Jane Wildgoose has accepted an invitation from Cambridge University to speak in one of a series of paired seminars in the Research Programme entitled Things: Early Modern Material Culture at CRASSH (Centre for Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities) in the new year. More information to be posted here soon, when the date and programme have been confirmed.
Meanwhile, Jane is continuing her practice-based PhD research entitled Collecting and Interpreting Human Skulls & Hair in Late 19th Century London: Passing Fables and Comparative Readings at The Wildgoose Memorial Library at Kingston University, where she was awarded a studentship in 2011.
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CURRENT EVENTS
Spring-Summer 2012
As Keyholder of the Cabinet of Artists attached to the Strandlines project at King's College London, Jane Wildgoose is presenting work at a Strandlives Day about 'Luminous and Lesser Lives on the Strand' at King's on 8th May.
On 25th May Jane Wildgoose is a speaker at the Natural History Museum Live Event Displaying the Dead accompanying the exhibition Animal Inside Out.
Jane Wildgoose is taking part in the exhibition BONE at the Florence Nightingale Museum, London, from 19th July - 31st August where one of her vanitas still-life photographs has been selected by curator Simon Gould. She has been invited to appear as a "live respondent" during the exhibition and looks forward to discussing bone with visitors, as well as loaning selected material to the exhibition from The Wildgoose Memorial Library.
Meanwhile, Jane is continuing her practice-based PhD research entitled Collecting and Interpreting Human Skulls & Hair in Late 19th Century London: Passing Fables and Comparative Readings at The Wildgoose Memorial Library at Kingston University, where she was awarded a studentship in 2011.
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CURRENT EVENTS
Winter 2011 - Spring 2012
2012 began with a piece of Jane Wildgoose's work being accessioned into the collection at the Yale Center for British Art at the beginning of January. The work was originally commissioned by Charles Ryskamp (1928-2010), Yale PhD 1956 (formerly Director of the Pierpoint Morgan Library from 1969-1987 and Director of the Frick Collection from 1987-1997) whom Jane met in 2009 at the Center, at the opening of her installation Promiscuous Assemblage, Friendship, & The Order of Things. The work - a single flower made from tiny shells, of the kind featured in the cabinet made to Jane's design for the installation, and presented like a relic in a glass box - was purchased for the Paul Mellon collection with a gift in Charles's memory by Mark and Adam Eaker, Yale BA 2007.
During March Jane Wildgoose is leading a workshop entitled 'Noblest Bodies are but Gilded Clay' for Medical Humanities students studying 'Death, autopsy and the law' at Imperial College; she is also contributing to Imperial College's 5th Annual Foundations of Clinical Practice Conference for undergraduate teachers in the Faculty of Medicine, speaking about the arts and mortality with a presentation entitled 'An Excess of Delicate Feeling, a Susceptibility to Painful Regret'.
Meanwhile, Jane is continuing her practice-based PhD research entitled Collecting and Interpreting Human Skulls & Hair in Late 19th Century London: Passing Fables and Comparative Readings at The Wildgoose Memorial Library at Kingston University, where she was awarded a studentship in 2011.
A report on the one day conference Materials of Mourning: Death, Materiality and Memory in Victorian Britain, in which Jane took part at York University in December 2011, has been posted on the conference blog. As well as giving a paper entitled 'The Dear Precious Relics & Hair', Jane was invited to show objects from The Wildgoose Memorial Library collection at a roundtable at the end of the day, and to contribute a short piece about the WML to the Materials of Mourning blog.
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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.
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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.
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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
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CURRENT EVENTS
Spring-Summer 2012
As Keyholder of the Cabinet of Artists attached to the Strandlines project at King's College London, Jane Wildgoose is presenting work at a Strandlives Day about 'Luminous and Lesser Lives on the Strand' at King's on 8th May.
On 25th May Jane Wildgoose is a speaker at the Natural History Museum Live Event Displaying the Dead accompanying the exhibition Animal Inside Out.
Jane Wildgoose is taking part in the exhibition BONE at the Florence Nightingale Museum, London, from 19th July - 31st August where one of her vanitas still-life photographs has been selected by curator Simon Gould. She has been invited to appear as a "live respondent" during the exhibition and looks forward to discussing bone with visitors, as well as loaning selected material to the exhibition from The Wildgoose Memorial Library.
Meanwhile, Jane is continuing her practice-based PhD research entitled Collecting and Interpreting Human Skulls & Hair in Late 19th Century London: Passing Fables and Comparative Readings at The Wildgoose Memorial Library at Kingston University, where she was awarded a studentship in 2011.
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CURRENT EVENTS
Winter-Spring 2012
2012 began with a piece of Jane Wildgoose's work being accessioned into the collection at the Yale Center for British Art at the beginning of January. The work was originally commissioned by Charles Ryskamp (1928-2010), Yale PhD 1956 (formerly Director of the Pierpoint Morgan Library from 1969-1987 and Director of the Frick Collection from 1987-1997) whom Jane met in 2009 at the Center, at the opening of her installation Promiscuous Assemblage, Friendship, & The Order of Things. The work - a single flower made from tiny shells, of the kind featured in the cabinet made to Jane's design for the installation, and presented like a relic in a glass box - was purchased for the Paul Mellon collection with a gift in Charles's memory by Mark and Adam Eaker, Yale BA 2007.
During March Jane Wildgoose is leading a workshop entitled 'Noblest Bodies are but Gilded Clay' for Medical Humanities students studying 'Death, autopsy and the law' at Imperial College; she is also contributing to Imperial College's 5th Annual Foundations of Clinical Practice Conference for undergraduate teachers in the Faculty of Medicine, speaking about the arts and mortality with a presentation entitled 'An Excess of Delicate Feeling, a Susceptibility to Painful Regret'.
Meanwhile, Jane is continuing her practice-based PhD research entitled Collecting and Interpreting Human Skulls & Hair in Late 19th Century London: Passing Fables and Comparative Readings at The Wildgoose Memorial Library at Kingston University, where she was awarded a studentship in 2011.
A report on the one day conference Materials of Mourning: Death, Materiality and Memory in Victorian Britain, in which Jane took part at York University in December 2011, has been posted on the conference blog. As well as giving a paper entitled 'The Dear Precious Relics & Hair', Jane was invited to show objects from The Wildgoose Memorial Library collection at a roundtable at the end of the day, and to contribute a short piece about the WML to the Materials of Mourning blog.
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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.
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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.
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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
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