2020 EVENTS
**DUE TO THE ONGOING CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) EMERGENCY, THE FOLLOWING EVENTS HAVE BEEN CANCELLED**
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Saturday 28 March 2020 - **CANCELLED**
Lecture by Andrew Hill - John Ruskin Today
Venue: Main Hall (second floor), Birmingham & Midland Institute, 9 Margaret Street, Birmingham. B3 3BS. @ 11.00 am (Reception from 10.30 am)
Lecture Details
John Ruskin was the best-known and most controversial intellectual of the Victorian age. He was an art critic, a social activist, an early environmentalist; he was also a painter, writer, and a determined tastemaker in the fields of architecture and design. By championing JMW Turner and the Pre-Raphaelites, he ensured that their flame continued to burn long beyond his death in 1900, even as his own reputation faded. Our speaker will discuss why Ruskin’s radical ideas are still relevant to today and what we can learn from his intense interest in meaningful work and the meticulous approach of the Pre-Raphaelites and their school.
Andrew Hill, award-winning journalist and author of Ruskinland: How John Ruskin Shapes Our World, is an Associate Editor and Management Editor of the Financial Times and writes a weekly FT column. He was named Business Commentator of the Year 2016 in the Editorial Intelligence Comment Awards. He is also the author of Leadership in the Headlines (2016).
Lecture by Andrew Hill - John Ruskin Today
Venue: Main Hall (second floor), Birmingham & Midland Institute, 9 Margaret Street, Birmingham. B3 3BS. @ 11.00 am (Reception from 10.30 am)
Lecture Details
John Ruskin was the best-known and most controversial intellectual of the Victorian age. He was an art critic, a social activist, an early environmentalist; he was also a painter, writer, and a determined tastemaker in the fields of architecture and design. By championing JMW Turner and the Pre-Raphaelites, he ensured that their flame continued to burn long beyond his death in 1900, even as his own reputation faded. Our speaker will discuss why Ruskin’s radical ideas are still relevant to today and what we can learn from his intense interest in meaningful work and the meticulous approach of the Pre-Raphaelites and their school.
Andrew Hill, award-winning journalist and author of Ruskinland: How John Ruskin Shapes Our World, is an Associate Editor and Management Editor of the Financial Times and writes a weekly FT column. He was named Business Commentator of the Year 2016 in the Editorial Intelligence Comment Awards. He is also the author of Leadership in the Headlines (2016).
Saturday 18 April 2020 - **CANCELLED**
Lecture by Jim Cheshire on 'Stained Glass, Art & Medievalism: the Hardman Firm & the Pre-Raphaelites'
Venue: John Peek Conference Room, Birmingham & Midland Institute, 9 Margaret Street, Birmingham. B3 3BS. @ 11.00 am (Reception from 10.30 am)
Lecture Details
Our speaker will explore the revival of stained glass in the 1850s and its relationship to the emerging aesthetics of Pre-Raphaelite painting. He will explain the factors that influenced the style of mid-Victorian stained glass and the extent to which these overlapped with the ideas and visual qualities of the Pre-Raphaelites.
Jim Cheshire researches the literary and visual culture of the Nineteenth century and thematically is centred on Victorian medievalism. He has worked on stained glass, the Gothic Revival and publishing history especially the literary and material culture surrounding the career of Alfred Tennyson including a recent monograph about Edward Moxon and his impact on Victorian poetry. He is currently working on chapters for the Oxford Handbook of Victorian Medievalism, the Routledge Companion to William Morris and the Bloomsbury Cultural History of the Interior 1800-1920.
Lecture by Jim Cheshire on 'Stained Glass, Art & Medievalism: the Hardman Firm & the Pre-Raphaelites'
Venue: John Peek Conference Room, Birmingham & Midland Institute, 9 Margaret Street, Birmingham. B3 3BS. @ 11.00 am (Reception from 10.30 am)
Lecture Details
Our speaker will explore the revival of stained glass in the 1850s and its relationship to the emerging aesthetics of Pre-Raphaelite painting. He will explain the factors that influenced the style of mid-Victorian stained glass and the extent to which these overlapped with the ideas and visual qualities of the Pre-Raphaelites.
Jim Cheshire researches the literary and visual culture of the Nineteenth century and thematically is centred on Victorian medievalism. He has worked on stained glass, the Gothic Revival and publishing history especially the literary and material culture surrounding the career of Alfred Tennyson including a recent monograph about Edward Moxon and his impact on Victorian poetry. He is currently working on chapters for the Oxford Handbook of Victorian Medievalism, the Routledge Companion to William Morris and the Bloomsbury Cultural History of the Interior 1800-1920.
Saturday 16 May 2020 **CANCELLED**
Lecture by Louise Chapman on “A Chance Discovery: A Gathering of Dress from Kate Elizabeth Bunce”
Venue: John Peek Conference Room, Birmingham & Midland Institute, 9 Margaret Street, Birmingham. B3 3BS. @ 11.00 am (Reception from 10.30 am)
Lecture Details
In 2012, in a dark room at Birmingham City University (BCU), Louise uncovered floor-to-ceiling towers of archival boxes with cryptic labels such as '1890 Court Dress' or 'extremely delicate Regency dress.' Many in the fashion department at BCU disputed the collection’s value as an object to be retained. It comprises at least two collections of dress, one made by Kate Elizabeth Bunce in 1927 and the other with no documented provenance. Individual items offer an insight into, predominantly, middle-class women's everyday dress 1775-1980. Bequeathed to the Birmingham School of Art in 1927, the Bunce bequest offers a rare insight into an artists' 'hybrid' collection of dress, the only surviving example of a middle-class family dress gathering from a prominent female Pre-Raphaelite artist. The chance discovery of the Bunce collection offers the opportunity to reveal hidden biographies through the objects, and as representative of a middle-class female artist working within Birmingham.
Louise is now doing a Ph.D. at London College of Fashion having been a costumer in theatre for 17 years, and now leads on the BA Hons Costume Design and Practice programme at BCU.
Lecture by Louise Chapman on “A Chance Discovery: A Gathering of Dress from Kate Elizabeth Bunce”
Venue: John Peek Conference Room, Birmingham & Midland Institute, 9 Margaret Street, Birmingham. B3 3BS. @ 11.00 am (Reception from 10.30 am)
Lecture Details
In 2012, in a dark room at Birmingham City University (BCU), Louise uncovered floor-to-ceiling towers of archival boxes with cryptic labels such as '1890 Court Dress' or 'extremely delicate Regency dress.' Many in the fashion department at BCU disputed the collection’s value as an object to be retained. It comprises at least two collections of dress, one made by Kate Elizabeth Bunce in 1927 and the other with no documented provenance. Individual items offer an insight into, predominantly, middle-class women's everyday dress 1775-1980. Bequeathed to the Birmingham School of Art in 1927, the Bunce bequest offers a rare insight into an artists' 'hybrid' collection of dress, the only surviving example of a middle-class family dress gathering from a prominent female Pre-Raphaelite artist. The chance discovery of the Bunce collection offers the opportunity to reveal hidden biographies through the objects, and as representative of a middle-class female artist working within Birmingham.
Louise is now doing a Ph.D. at London College of Fashion having been a costumer in theatre for 17 years, and now leads on the BA Hons Costume Design and Practice programme at BCU.
Saturday 20 June 2020 - **CANCELLED**
Lecture by Brian Eaton on “Discovering Fanny Eaton - Daughter of a Slave and Inspiration for Pre-Raphaelite Artists”
Venue: John Peek Conference Room, Birmingham & Midland Institute, 9 Margaret Street, Birmingham. B3 3BS. @ 11.00 am (Reception from 10.30 am)
Lecture Details
Brian’s lecture will follow his search for the real Fanny Eaton, finding her name in the 1881 census. He will tell us what her life was like in Victorian England, how he met some of her descendants and heard their family stories, and how with the help of Jan March, the National Portrait Gallery and others, Fanny has been bought out of the shadows.
Brian Eaton is the great grandson of Fanny Eaton. He was Works Manager for an international steel fabrication company, far removed from the art world. He was prompted by his father’s stories to go in search of his ancestor.
Lecture by Brian Eaton on “Discovering Fanny Eaton - Daughter of a Slave and Inspiration for Pre-Raphaelite Artists”
Venue: John Peek Conference Room, Birmingham & Midland Institute, 9 Margaret Street, Birmingham. B3 3BS. @ 11.00 am (Reception from 10.30 am)
Lecture Details
Brian’s lecture will follow his search for the real Fanny Eaton, finding her name in the 1881 census. He will tell us what her life was like in Victorian England, how he met some of her descendants and heard their family stories, and how with the help of Jan March, the National Portrait Gallery and others, Fanny has been bought out of the shadows.
Brian Eaton is the great grandson of Fanny Eaton. He was Works Manager for an international steel fabrication company, far removed from the art world. He was prompted by his father’s stories to go in search of his ancestor.
PAST 2020 Events
Saturday 25 January 2020
Lecture by Dr Jasmine Allen : on Pre-Raphaelite and Arts & Crafts Stained Glass at The Stained Glass Museum, Ely.
Venue: John Peek Conference Room, Birmingham & Midland Institute, 9 Margaret Street, Birmingham. B3 3BS. @ 11.00 am (Reception from 10.30 am) [Society EGM takes place at 10.30am]
Lecture by Dr Jasmine Allen : on Pre-Raphaelite and Arts & Crafts Stained Glass at The Stained Glass Museum, Ely.
Venue: John Peek Conference Room, Birmingham & Midland Institute, 9 Margaret Street, Birmingham. B3 3BS. @ 11.00 am (Reception from 10.30 am) [Society EGM takes place at 10.30am]
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Lecture Details
Located on an upper level of Ely Cathedral, The Stained Glass Museum is something of a hidden gem. The only museum dedicated to stained glass in the UK, its collections span over 800 years. The museum has a particularly fine collection of 19th and 20th century British stained glass. In this illustrated talk the Curator of The Stained Glass Museum will discuss some of the Pre-Raphaelite and Arts and Crafts windows in the museum’s collection, revealing their origins and the influence of these artistic movements upon the unique art of stained glass. Dr Jasmine Allen is Director and Curator of The Stained Glass Museum, Ely, the only museum dedicated to the art of stained glass in the UK. She is author of a recent monograph entitled Windows for the world: nineteenth-century stained glass and the International Exhibitions, c.1851-1900 (Manchester University Press, 2018), and is currently co-editing a special issue on 19th century stained glass for the interdisciplinary journal 19. Jasmine is also a board member of the Glaziers Trust, the charitable arm of the Worshipful Company of Glaziers and an advisor to the London Stained Glass Repository. |
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Saturday 22 February 2020
Lecture by Dr Laura MacCulloch on 'Ford Madox Brown: the Unofficial Pre-Raphaelite.'
Venue: John Peek Conference Room, Birmingham & Midland Institute, 9 Margaret Street, Birmingham. B3 3BS. @ 11.00 am (Reception from 10.30 am)
Lecture by Dr Laura MacCulloch on 'Ford Madox Brown: the Unofficial Pre-Raphaelite.'
Venue: John Peek Conference Room, Birmingham & Midland Institute, 9 Margaret Street, Birmingham. B3 3BS. @ 11.00 am (Reception from 10.30 am)
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Lecture Details
In this talk Dr Laura MacCulloch, Curator at Royal Holloway, University of London, explores the largest collection of drawings by Ford Madox Brown held at Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery. Using these drawings she will look at Brown’s early artistic influences and follow his journey as an artist through to his mature style. Through these works she will reveal what made his art and ideas so appealing to the young men who went on to form the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and how he, although not a formal member of the group, worked alongside them to create Pre-Raphaelite masterpieces. |
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