Conference: 'EXPRESSION OF SELF'

North Lands Creative Glass

2008 CONFERENCE: 'Expression of Self'

SATURDAY/SUNDAY
6 - 7 September

SATURDAY 9.15 Opening Remarks

9.30 Keynote Presentation: 'Beware Wet Paint: chasing the elusive creative idea'
Jeremy Myerson's illustrated lecture will be drawing on the work of the graphic designer Alan Fletcher, with whom he collaborated on the book 'Beware Wet Paint'. Jeremy Myerson will look at where creative ideas come from and how they take form in two and three dimensions. The lecture will span from historical examples to current case studies from the Royal College of Art's innovation network, giving artists, designers and makers an insight into creative sources of inspiration and ways to filter ideas.
Jeremy Myerson has been a journalist, researcher, prolific author, academic and activist in the British design community for the past 25 years. He developed his interest in design and craft as a journalist and editor on titles including 'Design', 'Creative Review' and 'World Architecture'. In 1986 he was founding editor of Design Week and in 1999 he joined the RCA to set up the Helen Hamlyn Centre with Roger Coleman. Today he is Director of the centre and Professor of Design Studies at the RCA where he also leads the Innovation RCA network for business.

10.30 Morning Coffee

11.00 'Glass: Material in the Service of Meaning'
Tina Oldknow's lecture will look at sculptural glass and its meaning in relation to the themes of nature, the figure, material, and ideas about time. Work by artists for whom glass is a primary material, as well as the work of artists coming to glass from outside the glass world, will be presented, and recent important exhibitions about glass will be discussed.
Tina Oldknow is Curator of Modern Glass at The Corning Museum of Glass. She is the author of many important books on glass and glass artists. Her next major exhibition is 'Independent Vision: The Heineman Collection of Contemporary Glass' to be staged at Corning in 2009.

12.00 'Inspiration vs. Perspiration'
Richard Jolley's lecture will connect the dots of his personal inspiration, the human figure and condition and how he explored this interest during his 30+ year career and is still trying to figure out where we fit in the universe. Being inspired to work is just the first step on the long path of a journey that is immersed in the arts and if you are a visual artist that journey culminates in the creative object.

1.00 Lunch

2.00 'Sources of Inspiration'
Philip Eglin's work is inspired by a heterogeneous array of sources. "Through my slide talk I hope to illustrate how these varied sources have impacted upon my ceramic work in its differing forms. The majority of my pieces are hand built from soft slabs, and have their surfaces added to at each of the various stages of making and firing."
Philip Eglin was born in Gibraltar in 1959. His work can be found in numerous important public and private collections. He was winner of the Jerwood Prize for Applied Arts: Ceramics in 1996.

3.00 'Dagmar Brendstrup in conversation with Dan Klein'
Dagmar Brendstrup is director of the Ebeltoft Glass Museum in Denmark, where she is responsible for organising numerous themed or solo exhibitions every year. In conversation with Dan Klein she will discuss what it is that has inspired her work at Ebeltoft over many years.

4.00 Tea and visit to Whaligoe

7.30 Conference Party

SUNDAY

9.15 'Observations'
In this talk Ann Wolff will explain the way in which her work has evolved and changed over a long and varied career as an artist. 10.00 'The Observant Mask'
Christopher Burns and Jean-Marc Abcarius "Our inspiration evolves out of a perception, a remembered place, a desired atmosphere, defining moments in our interaction with the world.
A transformative process begins - involuntarily - with the very act of observation, and develops in the collaborative and complex process of designing architecture."

10.45 Morning Coffee
Demonstration in the Hot Shop by Tobias Mohl and Janusz Pozniak.
Demonstration in the kiln room by Jiri Harcuba

12.00 'Travel and work as sources of inspiration'
In her presentation, April Surgent will discuss how her interactions with and perceptions of different places are the inspiration behind her work. She will share her experiences by revealing a series of photographs that have helped her to understand the significance of the inherent link between person and place. Surgent will also speak about how working with her mentor has motivated her to make innovative engravings.

12.45 Lunch

2.00 'Victoria and Albert Museum: an aspiration to inspire' by Geoff Opie
The talk is about the formalisation of inspiration for the arts in Britain during the 19th century, especially in relation to design for industrial process/making and the provision of training schools for design that led to The South Kensington System and subsequent countrywide art schools. The need to formalise the concept of rational imagination into a teachable form is a product of the 'age of reason' and was developed in the minds of the pre and early Victorians. By 1836 the British Government set in train a development that would culminate in today's Victoria & Albert Museum.
Geoff Opie trained as a designer at Falmouth School of Art. He then worked as a designer in Edinburgh and in 1969 came to work at the V&A. He was, subsequently, Head of Education at the V&A. He is a freelance lecturer in the history of art and design.

3.00 Question Time
Panel discussion between all conference speakers and with questions from the floor led by Dan Klein.

4.00 Closing Remarks

Enquiries

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Caithness, KW3 6BN
SCOTLAND

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Lorna MacMillan: Telephone: +44 (0)1593 721 229
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17 December 2007