National Glass Centre

Kith and Kin: New Glass and Ceramics Symposium

Friday 10 February 2012, 9.30am - 4.45pm

The Riverside Suite in the National Glass Centre

A glass and ceramics symposium featuring presentations from artists exhibiting in Kith and Kin: New Glass and Ceramics (Andrew Livingstone, Colin Rennie, June Kingsbury, Chris McHugh, Erin Dickson and Jeffrey Sarmiento), and two artists; Charlotte Hodes and Prof. Paul Coldwell, whose practice similarly address conceptual approaches in the realisation of ideas and decorative concerns. The symposium will conclude with a European design case study by Dr Jack Dawson. 

The symposium will provide a context for, and investigation into how the rich traditions of glass and ceramics in the North East of England and beyond, are being innovatively explored and developed through a range of contemporary  practice, diverse content, cross-over of technique and  media, and by practice-led research.

Schedule:

9.30am  Coffee
10.00  Welcome – James Bustard – Director of the National Glass Centre
10.05  Introduction – Prof Peter Davies and Prof Kevin Petrie
10.15  Christopher McHugh – Sunderland Pottery: A family affair
10.40  Prof Paul Coldwell - Wax, Glass & Bronze
11.05  Break
11.15  Jeffrey Sarmiento and Erin Dickson - Collaboration: Building an Emotional Leak
11.40  Dr Andrew Livingstone - Authenticity: repositioned familiarity and the contribution to expansion. Ceramic practice and the digital interface
12.05 – 2.00  Lunch. Available to purchase in the National Glass Centre or University, nearby. This is also a chance to view the ‘Kith and Kin’ exhibition and tour the National Glass Centre.
2.00  James Maskrey - Endurance, Endeavour and Exploration: reflections on a creative practice.
2.25  Charlotte Hodes - Silhouettes and Filigree
2.50  Colin Rennie – Negative Entropy
3.15  Coffee
3.45  June Kingsbury - The Animal as Narrative: The Animal as Medium.
4.10  Dr Jack Dawson – Glass, Nature, Nation
4.45  Close