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Attend a two-day academic conference exploring modern British art, environmental perspectives, and Henry Moore's practice across multiple venues.
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Get matched →This major conference seeks to recast modern British art within wider environmental, global, and methodological frameworks. Reflecting Moore's own engagement with environmental, material, professional, and pedagogical perspectives, the conference adopts a multi-site format that combines scholarly discussion with encounters with artworks in situ. The conference has been organised in collaboration with the Department of History of Art at the University of Cambridge and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and is kindly supported by The British Academy Early Career Research Network and School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Set within the living landscape of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, the first day unfolds in dialogue with Henry Moore: Monumental Nature, the largest outdoor presentation of Moore's work to date. This session explores the environmental and material dimensions of modern British art, investigating how artistic production, natural resources, and the physical landscape intersect with urgent questions of stewardship, ecology, and responsibility. Panel 1 focuses on public, professional, and planetary responsibilities in artistic production, examining how sculpture engages with material sourcing, labour, locality, and environmental impact. Panel 2 investigates how materiality and organic observation shaped the visual language of British modernism, exploring intersections of sculpture and geology and the role of scientific thought in shaping artistic form.
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The second day turns to movement, exchange, continuity, and interpretation, examining how modern British art circulates across national and transnational networks and how its meanings evolve over time. The programme explores modernism as a dynamic field shaped by mobility, institutional frameworks, and ongoing processes of research, care, and reinterpretation. Particular attention is given to the ways artworks travel between contexts.
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