Taking place on Saturday 17th June at MOMA Machynlleth is a day of presentations, discussion and music exploring the transformation of place in art, music and literature, to accompany the MOMA Machynlleth exhibition Roger Cecil: Inside the Studio.
Full programme:
10 am Registration and coffee
10.30 Dr Peter Wakelin, Roger Cecil Curator
Welcome: Abstracting the Landscape
11.00 Professor Jeff Wallace, Cardiff Metropolitan University
What do we want from abstraction?
11.45 Dr Kate Romano, Goldfield Ensemble
Invisible Places and Imaginary Landscapes in Music
12.20 Break to view exhibition
Bring a packed lunch or eat in Machynlleth
13.45 Professor Mike Tooby, Bath School of Art and Design
'Do not put colours what do not belong': Alfred Wallis and the idea of abstraction
14.15 Professor David Alan Mellor, University of Sussex
Lyrical Landscape Abstraction: Neo-Romance to Hockney
14.45 Discussion: abstracting landscapes in practice
Writer: Tom Bullough (Addlands, Konstantin, The Claude Glass, A )
Painter: Kate Corbett-Winder
Composer: Piers Partridge (The Big Field, Water Break its Neck, Bowl of Plums )
16.00 Tea
16.45 Concert – Music and Landscape, The Goldfield Ensemble:
Nicola Goldscheider (violin), Kate Romano (clarinet), Richard Uttley (piano)
1. Peter Maxwell Davies, Mrs Linklater's Tune for Solo Violin (1998)
2. Claude Debussy, Violin Sonata (1917)
3. Benjamin Britten, Sailing, from Holiday Diary, op.5 (1934)
4. William Alwyn, Conversations for Violin, Clarinet and Piano (1950)
5. Kaija Saariaho, Duft for Solo Clarinet (2012)
6. John Ireland, Fantasy Sonata for Clarinet and Piano (1943)
7. Peter Maxwell Davies, Farewell to Stromness (1980)
18.00 Bar open
Tickets to the event cost £20 for the whole day (with tea & coffee), or £10 for the concert only.
(Roger Cecil: Inside the Studio is at MOMA Machynlleth until 24 June, Monday-Saturday, 10-4)
To register or for more information please go to ‘Events’ at www.moma.machynlleth.org.uk
