Digitising tens of thousands of sculptures involved the skills and dedication of hundreds of people – project staff, photographers, volunteers, and staff from collections across the UK. How did Art UK organise this work? Art UK’s project team, who managed the digitisation programme, outline the logistics of recording and photographing sculpture in a wide variety of settings.
Speakers:
Hazel Buchan Cameron and Alison Mitchelson, Regional Digitisation Managers, Art UK, ‘Those who can imagine anything, can create the impossible’ – recording sculpture in collections
Jessie Maucor and Colin White, Photography Managers, Art UK, Photographing and recording sculpture in collections for Art UK Sculpture
Anthony McIntosh, Public Sculpture Manager, Art UK and Tracy Jenkins, Public Sculpture Officer, Art UK, Recording public sculpture and the volunteer experience for Art UK Sculpture
Chair: Katey Goodwin, Deputy Director and Head of Digitisation, Learning and Engagement, Art UK
Please note that Tracy Jenkins' presentation has been uploaded as a separate video.
Artwork & Image credits
5:00: Alan Turing by Stephen Kettle (© the artist), Bletchley Park Trust
8:58: Top left image: Woman of Belfast No. V by F. E. McWilliam (© the artist’s estate); Bottom left image: Working Model for Draped Reclining Figure by Henry Moore (© The Henry Moore Foundation); Middle image: Rajas Zandra by Andrew Logan (© the artist/Andrew Logan Museum of Sculpture); Right image: HRH The Princess Elizabeth by William Lamb (© the artist’s estate), William Lamb Studio/ANGUSalive.
13:53: Newton by Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi (© trustees of the Paolozzi Foundation). Jesus College Cambridge (top left); The British Library (top right); Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (bottom left); Tate (bottom right).
15:09: Maurice Bowra by John Doubleday (© the artist), Wadham College, University of Oxford
17:28: Left image: Bob by Bob Sloan (© the artist, photo credit: Bryan Rutledge); Right image: What Sun by Barry Orr (© the artist’s estate), Royal Ulster Academy.
25:52: Seal and Aisle (two parts A+B) by Kate Haywood (© the artist), National Glass Centre.
30:40: Circles Intercepted by David Smith (© the artist’s estate)
49:50: Mercy Hunter by George MacCann (© the artist’s estate), Armagh County Museum
50:20: From left to right: Hedgerow Crimson by Keith John Rand (© Royal Scottish Academy of Art & Architecture); Mollochite by Gareth Fisher (© Royal Scottish Academy of Art & Architecture); Standing Figure by Wilhelm Josef Soukop (© the artist's estate), Beecroft Art Gallery; Field Figure, Pipers by Keith John Rand (© Royal Scottish Academy of Art & Architecture); Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II by George Henry Paulin (© Royal Scottish Academy of Art & Architecture); Portrait Head of a Male by George Alfred Holman (© the artist), Beecroft Art Gallery.
50:37: Couroumon by Ronald Moody (© the artist's estate), Museums Sheffield
56:05: HRH The Princess Elizabeth by William Lamb (© the artist’s estate), William Lamb Studio/ANGUSalive.
56:34: Peace A by F. E. McWilliam (© the artist’s estate), Down County Museum
56:39: A Moment in Time by Louise Gardiner (© the artist), Corgarff, Aberdeenshire. Photo credit: Dewi Owens/Art UK
56:41: The Story of Arias by Fernando Arias (© Essex Collection of Art from Latin America)
56:46: Passacaglia by Charles Hadcock, Brighton, East Sussex (© the artist). Photo credit: Lawrence Suss/Art UK
56:48: Martian Walking Engine by Michael Condron, Woking, Surrey (© the artist). Photo credit: Mike Longhurst/Art UK
56:54: Loop the Loop / Gwneud Dolen by Sue Hiley Harris (© the artist), MOMA MACHYNLLETH
56:57: Man Swinging a Boy by Ray Exworth (© the artist's estate), Christchurch Mansion
56:58: Sea Marker by Martin Rayner (© the artist's estate), Kirkcaldy Galleries
