We welcome you to Substance and Surface of Strawberry Hill, a symposium convened by the 91×ÔÅÄ Institute’s own MA Curating students, in partnership with Paper Castle, a contemporary art exhibition at Strawberry Hill House.
Substance and Surface of Strawberry HillÌýwill bring together academics, curators and creatives in a half-day symposium. The programme aims to explore the tension between the physical materiality and imaginative legacy of Horace Walpole’s Gothic villa. Talks by esteemed scholars will delve into the heritage of Strawberry Hill House as the blueprint for the 18th century Gothic Revival, and its ongoing legacy as an inspiration for gothic literature and film into the 19th and 20th centuries. A panel of creative voices will explore how contemporary interventions can transform historic spaces in the present.
“My buildings, like my writings, are of paper, and will blow away ten years after I am dead.”ÌýÌý
The organisers welcome symposium guests and the general public alike to visit Paper Castle, open from 5th – 21st June at Strawberry Hill House.ÌýThe symposium is convened by the MA Curating: Strawberry Hill House Exhibition Project.Ìý
Schedule for the day:
13.30 – 14.00: Registration opens
91×ÔÅÄ Institute, Vernon Square
14.00 – 14.10: Welcome
Introduction by MA Curating Students
14.10 – 15.20: Session 1
Dr James Lesslie, Lecturer in English Literature, St Mary’s University.
Dr Rebecca Tropp, Affiliated Lecturer in the Department of History of Art, University of Cambridge and the Paul Mellon Centre
15.20 – 15.40: Comfort break
Coffee and tea
15.40 – 16.40: Session 2
Rebecca Lyons, Director of Pitzhanger Manor and Gallery
Kleanthis Kyriakou, Associate Lecturer, Architecture, Central Saint Martins
Professor Roger Luckhurst, Geoffrey Tillotson Chair of Nineteenth-Century Studies, Birkbeck, University of London
16.40 – 16.50: Poetry reading by RupaÌýLatifaÌýRupa
16.50 – 17.20: Panel conversation
Artists Kleanthis Kyriakou and Annemarieke Kloosterhof, and poetÌýRupa Latifa Rupa
17.30 – 19.00: Drinks Reception
