NORDIC ART HISTORY ROUNDTABLES:
WOMEN AND ENVIRONMENT IN NORDIC ART AND DESIGN
TUESDAY, 2 JULY 2024
17.00-18.30 BST
Location
Society of Antiquaries of London
Burlington House, London W1J 0BE
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Expanding upon the conversations had in "New Stories in Nordic Art History", in this second roundtable we will hear more about museum acquisitions, curation, research, and pedagogy in North American and British institutions as it pertains to Nordic art history. Our speakers will introduce their work into reviving women's stories and art practices as well as ongoing conversations around environment within Nordic art and design, both as a subject and as a created space.
Ticketed event, limited places available.
Refreshments to be served after the talk.
This two-part roundtable series curated by Isabelle Gapp coincides with the exhibition Anna Boberg (1864-1935), Painting the Arctic Summer at Ben Elwes Fine Art and the publication of her recent volume, A Circumpolar Landscape, Art and Environment in Scandinavia and North America, 1890-1930 (Lund Humphries, 2024).
MaryAnne Stevens specialises in 18th-, 19th- and early 20th- century art, with particular reference to British, French and Nordic art in the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Following a full-time career in the academic world, she worked at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, where, as Director of Academic Affairs, she established the Learning Department and the Architecture Programme, professionalised the Collections, Library and Archive, and, for three years from 2005 - 2007, served as Acting Secretary. She left the Royal Academy in January 2013 to pursue a career as an independent art historian, curator, lecturer and consultant. She has curated many major international loan exhibitions, the most recent being Nikolai Astrup: Visions of Norway(Clark Art Institute MA, Bergen and Stockholm, 2021 - 22) and After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art(National Gallery London, 2023).
Isabelle Gapp is an art historian who writes and teaches at the intersections of landscape painting, environmental history, and climate change around the Circumpolar North. She is an Interdisciplinary Fellow in the Department of Art History at the University of Aberdeen. Isabelle leads the British Academy-funded project From the Floe Edge and multi-grant awarded project Teaching Arctic Environments. She is the author of A Circumpolar Landscape: Art and Environment in Scandinavia and North America, 1890-1930 (Lund Humphries, 2024).
Charlotte Ashby is a lecturer in art and design history at Birkbeck, University of London. She is the author of Modernism in Scandinavia (2017) and Art Nouveau: Art, Architecture and Design in Transformation (2021), and she is co-editor of the anthologies Imagined Cosmopolis: Internationalism and Cultural Exchange at the fin-de-siecle (2019) and Building/Object: Shared and Contested Territories of Design and Architecture (2022).
Leslie Anderson is Chief Curator of the National Nordic Museum. Recently, she led collaborations with the Ateneum Art Museum/National Gallery of Finland and Sweden's Nationalmuseum; organized and co-curated the traveling exhibition Nordic Utopia? African Americans in the 20th Century; and commissioned the spatial sound and scent sculpture FLOD by Jónsi (vocalist for the world-famous band Sigur Rós) for his first art exhibition at an American museum. Previously, Leslie held positions at Utah Museum of Fine Arts and Indianapolis Museum of Art and taught courses at Brooklyn College and Parsons School of Design. She has been an American Scandinavian-Foundation Fellow and a Fulbright grantee at the University of Copenhagen. For her curatorial work, she received the Association of Art Museum Curators Award for Excellence in 2018, the Utah Museums Association Award for Excellence in 2020, and University of Florida's "40 Gators under 40" honor in 2023. She is a mayoral-appointed Seattle Arts Commissioner, chair of the City's Public Art Advisory Committee, and a member of the Executive Council of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study.
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