The Power of Place: A day of presentations to accompany the exhibition Romanticism in the Welsh Landscape
MOMA Machynlleth
Saturday 21 May 2016, 10.30–16.30
Thomas Jones, The Southern Extremity of Carnedde Mountain in Radnorshire, 1794, © LLGC/NLW
The Welsh landscape has been a source of inspiration for visionary works of art from the 1760s to today. This day-conference will explore responses to the landscape in the works of writers and artists who travelled in Wales from the late eighteenth century to the present.
Hosted at MOMA Machynlleth in collaboration with the Curious Travellers project at the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies (CAWCS), this is one of a series of events to accompany the major exhibition Romanticism in the Welsh Landscape. Some sixty paintings, drawings and multi-media works from public and private collections allow viewers to explore the seminal role of Wales in the origin and renewal of Romanticism, from the late eighteenth century to the present.
All welcome!
The exhibition continues 19 March--18 June 2016
The Power of Place – Programme
10am Registration and coffee
10.30 Welcome and introduction
10.45 Professor Damian Walford Davies, Cardiff University
The Wye corridor: ruins, tombs and sweet spots
11.15 Dr Mary-Ann Constantine, CAWCS
A city not made with hands: visions of Snowdonia 1799/1800
11.45 Dr Elizabeth Edwards, CAWCS
Watercolour, extreme weather, electricity: Cornelius Varley
in north Wales 1803–5
12.15 Break to visit the exhibition
Attendees make own arrangements for lunch (choice of cafés & shops)
13.30 Professor John Barrell, Queen Mary University
Edward Pugh: landscape and topography
14.00 Andrew Green, Swansea
John Sell Cotman: Wales observed, Wales recalled
14.30 Dr Peter Wakelin, Exhibition Curator
The green fuse: Wales and neo-romanticism
15.00 Tea
15.15 Dr Luke Thurston, Aberystwyth University
David Jones, landscape and war
15.45 Professor Helen Sear, Falmouth University, artist
The landscape looks back: the artist’s relationship with photography and place
4.15 End
To register please contact Angharad Elias: 01970 636543 [log in to unmask]
£15 (£10 unwaged) includes tea and coffee
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