Annual Lecture
The Society’s Talks 2024
“Augmenting the Artist:
Expanding Creative Possibilities through the use of Digital Technology”
by
Joseph Carpenter and Andrew Flint, Directors of Pangolin Digital
at
The Artworkers’ Guild
6, Queen Square
London WC1N 3AT
12.30 p.m. on Thursday 14 November 2024
Pangolin Digital is a small company that has grown out of Pangolin Editions. It consists of a group of digital technicians and craftsmen with a broad experience of helping artists, designers, architects and cultural institutions to achieve their creative ambitions.
A quote from the Directors: “The lecture will emphasise that the services we offer are not a replacement for the sculptor’s skill, but rather a set of tools that can expand their creative possibilities and bring their vision to life in new ways”
TICKETS
PLEASE BOOK EARLY AS SPACES MAY BE LIMITED
Society Members, Friends of the Society and students .....£5
Members of the public….minimum payment of £10
Please register your interest by email with your full name to sps@portrait-sculpture.org with a subject heading ‘Annual Lecture’.
Payment should be made using PayPal. A link will be found on the Society’s website shop www.portrait-sculpture.org/shop. For those unable to use PayPal please ask for the Society’s account details when registering.
The Society’s Talks 2020
Sculpture and Survival: The Many Faces of George Fullard
Click play and listen to the lecture above.
‘The lights were turned on,’ is how the sculptor Phyllida Barlow recalls her first, electric encounter with George Fullard at Chelsea School of Art. ‘Vivid, demanding, abrasive, contentious, funny,’ Fullard was a maverick mentor and highly original thinker about sculpture. ‘I make from what there is,’ he wrote – the human face and form, the materiality of clay and plaster, of doors and dustbins harvested from bomb- sites. In this online talk, Michael Bird explores the relationship between portraiture, autobiography and enactment in Fullard’s sculpture.
Michael Bird is a writer, art historian and author of George Fullard: Sculpture and Survival (Pangolin/Lund Humphries, 2016). His other books include Studio Voices: Art and Life in 20th-century Britain, The St Ives Artists: A Biography of Place and Time 100 Ideas that Changed Art and monographs on Lynn Chadwick and Sandra Blow. His bestselling history of art for children, Vincent’s Starry Night and Other Stories, has been translated into twenty languages. In 2016 he was Goodison Fellow at the British Library and is currently Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the University of Exeter. His next book, This
Is Tomorrow: An Artists’ History of 20th-century Britain, is due out in 2022.
Pictured: George Orwell statue, BBC Broadcasting House, London 2017 by Martin Jennings