Seminar: Future Plan (& Starting Point)

Southampton City Art Gallery, Civic Centre, Commercial Road, SO14 7LP, 12.30 - 16.30

How can we use new curatorial strategies to ignite the inspirational potential of public collections of modern and contemporary art?

Speakers:
Stuart Comer
Ann Bukantas
Gavin Delahunty
Neil Jefferies
Rebecca Lewin & Eleanor Nairne

This will be an opportunity to understand more about public collections. Speakers will look into the future for the public collections that they are working with. Future Plan is aimed to inspire a new generation of emerging curators and arts professionals to think about how they can work with the extraordinary resource that public collections offer.

The seminar has been programmed by the Contemporary Art Society’s Curatorial Fellow, Robert Dingle in collaboration with Southampton City Art Gallery's Lead Exhibitions Officer, Alice Workman.

Speakers:
Stuart Comer - Curator of Film, Tate Modern
Ann Bukantas - Head of Fine Art, National Museums Liverpool
Gavin Delahunty - Curator, MIMA
Neil Jefferies, Rebecca Lewin & Eleanor Nairne - Starting Point Curators

Southampton City Art Gallery, Civic Centre, Commercial Road, SO14 7LP, 12.30 - 16.30

12.30 – 13.00
Tea, coffee and arrivals

13.00 - 13.10
Welcome and introduction by Robert Dingle (Contemporary Art Society Centenary Curatorial Fellow) and Alice Workman (Lead Exhibitions Officer)

13.15 – 13.45
Stuart Comer, Film Curator, Tate Modern
Stuart Comer talks about his current responsibilities at Tate Modern as film curator, how his position has changed alongside the works in Tate's collection. Discussing the challenges of developing the collection, displays and screening programme at Tate Modern, as well as the forthcoming Oil Tanks spaces, he will talk about his many collaborations that have enriched the programme and various stand-alone projects, while drawing on some of the film works in the collection at Southampton City Art Gallery.

13.45 – 14.05
Break

14.05 - 14.15
Introduction by Alice Workman

14.15 – 14.45
Anne Bukantas, Head of Fine Art, Walker Art Gallery
As the Head of Fine Art at the Walker Art Gallery, Anne Bukantas will discuss the extraordinary collection of works held by the museum. This talk will introduce the Gallery and its collections, with a particular emphasis on the acquisition and display of contemporary art. It will introduce the John Moores painting prize, which has been at the core of the Walker’s contemporary art practice since its foundation in 1957. It will also look at other ways in which the Gallery works with artists to ‘animate’ the collections and the spaces in which they hang. Projects with the artists Phil Sayers and Rikke Lundgreen, and currently with the Turner Prize winning photographer Wolfgang Tillmans, will feature.

14.45 – 15.15
Gavin Delahunty, Curator, Mima
Gavin Delahunty is currently Curator at Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (mima) and in November 2010 will take up his new post as Head of Exhibitions and Displays at Tate Liverpool. Gavin will talk about mima’s Drawing Collection, currently being developed in consultation with The Drawing Center, NY, focusing on post-war drawing from the Americas.

15.15 – 15.30
Questions invited from the audience will be addressed by Stuart Comer, Anne Bukantas and Gavin Delahunty

15.30 – 15.45
Break

15.45 – 16.30
Starting Point Curators
Starting Point is a new curatorial opportunity open to recent graduate curators to work with public collections. This year Eleanor Nairne, Rebecca Lewin and Neil Jefferies have been offered the opportunity to curate a small cluster of works from the collection at Southampton City Art Gallery, which will be exhibited as part of their public programme in 2011. Eleanor Nairne & Rebecca Lewin and Neil Jefferies will be invited to participate in the seminar presenting the ideas behind their proposals and current research.

To download the programme for the day click here

FREE to members of the National Network
£10 to non-members

To book on to this seminar please email: nationalprogrammes@contemporaryartsociety.org