Carving Day
Saturday 23 June 2012 10:15am - 10:15am
Slade School of Fine Art (Sculpture Studio) Universtiy College London, 
Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT.
The Institute of Making are delighted to be collaborating with the Art in the Making team from KCL to produce a day of practical carving experimentation. The daylong workshop will give 30 lucky participants the chance to get hands on with stone, chalk, chocolate and soap (to name but a few of the materials) and the techniques and tools of carving.
UPDATE: THIS EVENT IS NOW FULL
The programme of the day's activates is as follows:
SATURDAY 23rd JUNE
1015-1045 Arrive, Tea and Coffee provided
1045-1100 Introduction by the Institute of Making and the Art of Making team
1100-1300 Stone carving session with Andy Tanser and Paul Jakeman
1300-1330 Lunch
1330-1400 Talk by Peter Rockwell, 'The practicalities of production: sculpture from quarry to completion'
1400-1600 Alternative approaches to carving (from soap and chalk to foam and chocolate)
1600-1700 Final carving session (stone or otherwise)
LOCATION:
Slade School of Fine Art (Sculpture Studio) Universtiy College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT.
The Art in the Making team are also running a conference on stone carving the day before our carving day. If you wish to attend the conference, please see the information below with regard to book details.
‘Art in the Making: Approaches to the Carving of Stone’
The Art of Making in Antiquity is a two-year project funded by the Leverhulme Trust and based at the Departments of Classics and of Digital Humanities at King’s College London. The project develops an innovative approach to Roman sculpture by interpreting carving techniques through the lens of practical craft expertise. The project website can be found at www.artofmaking.ac.uk
On Friday 22nd June 2012 The Art of Making in Antiquity project will host a one-day conference at King’s College London with the title ‘Art in the Making: Approaches to the Carving of Stone’. The programme for the day is pasted below. Those wishing to attend should register by e-mailing ben.russell@kcl.ac.uk. The attendance fee is £10, which covers lunch and refreshments. Payment information will be provided on registration, the deadline for which is Wednesday 13th June.
Programme for Friday 22nd June:
0930-1000 Tea and Coffee
1000-1030 “The Art of Making in Antiquity: stoneworking in the Roman world” - Will Wootton and Ben Russell, King’s College London
1030-1115 “Spot the difference: identifying the work of sculptors at Persepolis and Nimrud” - Michael Roaf, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich
1115-1200 “A matter of vision? Asymmetries in the heads of Greek fifth-century sculptors” - Helle Hochscheid, University College Roosevelt Academy, Middelburg
1200-1245 “Carving for the catacombs: late Roman sarcophagi and loculus slabs in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford” - Susan Walker, The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
1245-1345 Lunch
1345-1430 “Marble portraits and technique in the fourth and fifth centuries AD” - Julia Lenaghan, Oxford Centre for Late Antiquity, University of Oxford
1430-1515 “Rock-cut temples and Indian granite carving” - Peter Rockwell
1515-1545 Tea and Coffee
1545-1630 “Carving stone sculptures in Medieval China” - Lukas Nickel, SOAS, University of London
1630-1715 “Local stone for local people: macigno in fifteenth century Florence” - Jim Harris, The Courtauld, London
1715-1800 “The Carrara Academy of Arts and its influence on modern methods and scholarship” - Amanda Claridge, Royal Holloway, University of London
1800- Reception