Does the collection and display of public sculpture reflect a shared heritage and commonality?
Speaker: Dr Paula Murphy (School of Art History and Cultural Studies, Univeristy College Dublin)
This paper examined the collection and display of Irish public sculpture in the north and south of the country from a historic point of view. Murphy explored this subject through different examples of the practice of sculpture such as: copies from the antique, monumental commemorative sculpture and the careers of two nineteenth-century sculptors (Patrick MacDowell from Belfast and John Henry Foley from Dublin)
Representing repression in museums; challenges, pressures, methodologies
Speaker: Suzanne Bardgett (Director of the Holocaust Exhibitions, Imperial War Museum, London)
This paper focused on a number of projects including the Holocaust Exhibition at the Imperial War Museum in order to highlight the challenges, pressures and lessons which arose through each project. An appropriate subject for these difficult times, Bardgett's presentation analised each project and further offered thoughts on how curators can prepare themselves and their teams for the specificissues arising from depictions of oppression.
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