Symposium: Arcadia for All? Rethinking Landscape Painting Now

Challenge your views on what landscape curation and painting can mean in this free one-day symposium.

Hear from artists and curators presenting and discussing the possibilities of curating art exhibitions on landscape and nature, with case studies from both national and local art galleries including Tate Liverpool, Leeds Art Gallery and The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery. 

In the afternoon there will be a round table comprising painters represented in the exhibition who will be discussing their practice and the vibrancy and vitality of landscape painting today. These will include David Ainley, Kimathi Donkor, Geraint Evans, Mark Fairnington, Barbara Howey, Paula MacArthur, Clare Thatcher, Judith Tucker, Rebecca Partridge and Joanna Whittle.

Schedule

10.00 Arrival: tea/coffee and opportunity to view Arcadia for All? Rethinking Landscape Painting Now and Shifting Borders: A Journey to the Centre of our World(s)

11.00 Introduction and welcome: Laura Claveria

Morning session – chair Andrea Thoma

Landscape and Nature in the Gallery

11.15 'Arcadia for All? Rethinking Landscape Painting Now' at The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery (Dr Judith Tucker, Senior Lecturer at the School of Design, University of Leeds and Geraint Evans, Pathway Leader MA Painting at Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London.)

11.45  'Radical Landscapes' at Tate Liverpool (Darren Pih, Chief Curator & Artistic Director at Harewood House, Leeds)

12.15 'Natural Encounters' at Leeds Art Gallery (Dr, Laura Claveria, Exhibitions Curator, The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, and Holly Grange, Exhibitions Curator, Leeds Art Gallery)

12.45 Curators’ round table response

Lunch break – lunch not provided, there are several cafes close to the Gallery or you are welcome to bring your own

Afternoon session – chair Judith Tucker

Painting Landscape

2.00 Kimathi Donkor

2.30 Round table of painters including Mark Fairnington, Kimathi Donker, Clare Thatcher, Barbara Howey, Paula MacArthur, David Ainley, Geraint Evans, Joanna Whittle, Rebecca Partridge

3.30 Finish

The exhibition Arcadia for All? Rethinking Landscape Painting Now at The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery is guest curated by Dr Judith Tucker, Senior Lecturer at the School of Design, University of Leeds and Geraint Evans, Pathway Leader MA Painting at Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London.

The symposium is supported by the Research Fund at the School of Design, University of Leeds and Research at Camberwell, Chelsea, Wimbledon Colleges of Arts at University of the Arts London.

Image: Simon Callery, 'Stura', 2021 (detail). ©Simon Callery. All Rights Reserved, DACS/Artimage 2023.