WORKSHOP 1
Making Faces: Portraiture and Models of Likeness
Friday 18th February, National Portrait Gallery
PROGRAMME
Chair/discussant: Dr Brian Durrans (British Museum Centre for Anthropology)
1.00 – 1.30
Registration
1.30 – 1.40
Dr Emma Chambers (UCL Art Collections & Tate Britain)
Introduction
1.40 – 1.55
Professor Joanna Woodall (Courtauld Institute)
Pre-face
2.00 – 2.15
Professor Marcia Pointon (Emeritus Professor,
University of Manchester)
‘Likeness’ as a problematic concept in historic portraiture
2.20 – 2.35
Hugh Aldersey-Williams (Independent Scholar)
“Like is an ill mark”
2.35 – 3.20
Discussion
3.20 – 4.05
Tea
4.05 – 4.20
Dr Suzannah Biernoff (Birkbeck, University of London)
Faces of war
4.25 – 4.40
Professor Nichola Rumsey (Centre for Appearance Research,
University of the West of England)
Whole face transplantation: issues of identity and recognition
4.45 – 5.00
Deborah Padfield (Slade School of Fine Art)
Facing pain
5.05 – 6.00
Discussion and close
The National Portrait Gallery will be open until 9pm with bar, live music, gallery talks
and a chance to see the current displays as part of the Late Shift series.