Event overview
From Stuff: Sculpture and Material Thinking
In this talk Cathie Pilkington reflects on her practice of making things from stuff. While her early work focused on bodging, cobbling, bungling, muddling up and jumbling together, her more recent works present ambivalent forms that quote and use body parts from art historical sculpted female bodies.
Exploring the grand sculptural canons of depicting nudes and goddesses with the more intimate registers of toys, ornaments and dummies, her sculpted doll figures are beautiful and uncanny. Carefully created from a wide array of materials and cultural references, these objects approach the immediacy of ordinary playthings, thereby confusing conventional categories of artwork, craft artefact and toy.
Cathie Pilkington was elected as a Royal Academician in 2014 and is the first female Professor of Sculpture in the history of the RA Schools. In 2017 her solo show Life Room: Anatomy of a Doll transformed the RA Schools’s 19th-century life-drawing room into an immersive sculptural installation.
Dates & times
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24 Jan 2018 | 5:15pm - 7:00pm |
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