Art, Artists and the Bible
Symposium Programme
Thursday 21 September | Friday 22 September | Saturday 23 September
Thursday 21st September
4.00 pm onwards – Registration
6.00 pm – Dinner
7.30 pm
Art and the Bible Narrative: A Chapel Dimension
Professor Clyde Binfield
Clyde Binfield is Professor Associate of History in the University of Sheffield. He is former President of the Ecclesiastical History Society, and author of So Down to Prayers: Studies in English Nonconformity 1781–1920 among many other works on Christianity and the Arts.
Friday 22nd September
8.00 am – Breakfast
9.30 am
The Question of ‘The Kingdom’: Marx and Biblical Imagery in the
Welsh Art of the Depression
Peter Lord
Peter Lord is a former Research Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth and Visiting Fellow at the Yale Centre for British Art in New Haven, Connecticut. He is the author of the trilogy of volumes on The Visual Culture of Wales, and has written and broadcast widely in Welsh and English on Welsh visual culture.
10.45 am – Coffee
11.15 am
Conflict and Resistance: heroic images of Modernism in the stained glass art of Wilhelmina Geddes (1887–1955)
Dr Nicola Gordon Bowe
Nicola Gordon Bowe lectures in the Faculty of History of Art and Design at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin. She is the author of the Life and Work of Harry Clarke, and editor of the volume Art and the National Dream. She is currently completing a biographical and critical study of Wilhemina Geddes.
12.45 pm – Lunch
2.00 pm
On the Road: Recording Images of the Bible in Wales
Dr John Morgan-Guy & Martin Crampin
John Morgan-Guy is the Research Fellow for the Imaging the Bible in Wales Project at the University of Wales, Lampeter. He has written widely on Ecclesiastical and Medical History. Martin Crampin also works on the project as an Artist, Researcher and Designer. He has worked in digital imaging and multimedia for over ten years, and has had work exhibited nationally and internationally. Both contributed to the Visual Culture of Wales project at the Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies.
3.15 pm
The Arts and Crafts Movement in the North West of England: Biblical Images
Barrie and Wendy Armstrong
Barrie and Wendy Armstrong are the authors and compilers of the recently published The Arts and Crafts Movement in the North West of England, a pioneering regional study.
4.30 pm – Tea
5.00 pm
Images of Mary in 19th and 20th century Welsh Visual Culture
Dr Sarah Jane Boss
Sarah Jane Boss is the Director of the Centre for Marian Studies and Lecturer in Theology at the University of Wales, Lampeter. She is the author of Empress and Handmaid: on Nature and Gender in the Cult of the Virgin Mary and Mary in the series New Century Theology.
6.30 pm
Reception hosted by the Vice-Chancellor
7.00 pm
Conference Dinner
Saturday 23rd September
8.00 am – Breakfast
9.30 am
Visual Typology and Pentecostal Theology: The Paintings of Nicholas Evans
Professor John Harvey
John Harvey is Director of the Centre for Studies in the Visual Culture of Religion at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. An art historian and art practitioner, he is author of The Art of Piety: The Visual Culture of Welsh Nonconformity and Image of the Invisible: The Visualization of Religion in the Welsh Nonconformist Tradition.
10.45 am – Coffee
11.15 am
Bible and Artists—Two Way Traffic
Rev Tom Devonshire Jones
Tom Devonshire Jones is the Director of Art and Christianity Enquiry (ACE), and editor of its quarterly bulletin, Art and Christianity. With Graham Howe he recently published English Cathedrals and the Visual Arts.
2.00 pm
An afternoon excursion to view some outstanding examples of Welsh visual biblical culture.
6.30 pm – Dinner
8.00 pm
Treasures from the Founders’ Library, University of Wales, Lampeter
Professor Nigel Yates, Professor of Ecclesiastical History and Keeper of Archives and Manuscripts.
Sunday 24th September
8.00 am – Breakfast and Departure
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