Jane Wildgoose, 'Promiscuous Assemblage, Friendship, and the Order of Things' (public lecture)
When:
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Venue:
Birkbeck Main Building, Malet Street
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In 2006 the artist Jane Wildgoose was commissioned by the Yale Center for British Art to devise "a cabinet in celebration of the friendship between Mrs. Delany (1700-1788) and Margaret, Duchess of Portland (1715-1785)", to accompany the exhibition 'Mrs. Delany and her Circle'. Taking the sale catalogue to the Duchess's magnificent 'Portland Museum' (sold in 1786) as a primary reference, the artist set about configuring a "memory theatre" - neither a literal nor a strictly historical re-creation, but a poetic celebration of the passion for beauty, order, scientific investigation, and decorative embellishment that informed and underpinned the enduring friendship of two extraordinarily inquiring, skilled women. 'Promiscuous Assemblage, Friendship, & The Order of Things' was exhibited at the Yale Center for British Art in 2009, and at Sir John Soane's Museum, London, in 2010.
Contact name:
Ann Lewis