Surrealism in Yorkshire

Welcome and Introduction

10:00
An introduction to the day’s programme

Session 1: Botanical Surreal

10:10
Chaired by Eleanor Clayton (Head of Exhibitions and Collections, The Hepworth Wakefield) and Dr Anna Reid (Senior Lecturer in History of Art, University of Leeds)

‘Ithell Colquhoun’s Surrealist Ecopoetics’
Professor Alyce Mahon, University of Cambridge

‘Ethnobotany and Surrealism in Henry Moore’s work’
Laura Bruni, Henry Moore Studios and Gardens

‘Eileen Agar’s Botanical Marvellous’
Dr Christina Heflin, Parson Paris

Break

11:30

Session 2: Surrealism in Yorkshire

11:50
Chaired by Dr Clare Nadal (Assistant Curator, Sculpture, Leeds Museums and Galleries / Henry Moore Institute)

‘Surrealism, Bricolage and the Anti-Work Ethic: Anthony Earnshaw and Peter Wood’
Professor Krzysztof Fijalkowski, Norwich University of the Arts

‘North and South: Regional Surrealisms’
Dr Hope Wolf, University of Sussex

Lunch

13:00

Session 3: Surrealism and Trauma

14:00
Chaired by Professor Patricia Allmer (Professor of Art History, University of Edinburgh) and Dr Clare O’Dowd (Research Curator, Henry Moore Institute)

‘Traumatic Childhood: Surrealism, Ghosts and Poltergeists’
Professor David Hopkins, University of Glasgow

‘Hervé Télémaque and the Traumatic Body: Portrait of a Family (1962-63)’
Professor Gavin Parkinson, The Courtauld Institute of Art

‘Joyce Mansour: Transcultural Trauma and Surrealism in Egypt’
Professor Andrea Gremels, Europa Universität Viadrina

Break

15:30

Keynote presentation

15:45
‘Zerrbilder: Strategies of Distortion in the Traumatic Surreal’
Professor Patricia Allmer, University of Edinburgh

Finish

17:00