R E C E N T   C O N F E R E N C E   P A P E R S   &   P U B L I C   L E C T U R E S

2012
(AUDIO) Deanna Petherbridge & Sarah Shalgosky in Conversation, The Universty of Warwick, UK Podcast, 21st November 2012
 www.deannapetherbridge.com/pages/Profile/Audio.html

The Primacy of Drawing: An Illustrated Talk by Deanna Petherbridge,
Warwick Arts Centre, Warwick University, Coventry, Wednesday 21st November

Witches and Wicked Bodies in conference Capturing Witches: Histories, Stories, Images, Lancaster University, 17th – 19th August

Drawing Study Day, Yale Center for British Art, 14th February

'The Remains of Drawing Friday 10th February, 2012 in The Symposium Is Drawing Dead? Yale School of Architecture, 9th – 11th February

Leonardo and Anatomy, Deanna Petherbridge in discussion with Francis Wells and Martin Clayton, The National Gallery, London, 20th January  


2011
‘The Primacy of Drawing’ Iwona Blazwick in conversation with Deanna Petherbridge’, Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Space, London, 13 September

 www.jerwoodvisualarts.org/page/3499/Jerwood+Drawing+Prize+2011

Rooted in the rhythmic: the graphic determinacy of Gainsboroughs 'dashing, strokey, scratchy, thunder and lightning manner', in Gainsborough Study Day, Holburne Museum, Bath, in association with the exhibition Gainsborough’s Landscapes: Themes and Variations, 14th November

Graphic Intersections: Erga and Parerga in  At Cross Purposes? When Art History Meets Design History, conference organised by the Courtauld Institute in association with V&A/ Royal College of Art. Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, 22th October

Idea, pragmatics and critique: drawing as empowering and interactive practice  in Technologies of Drawing conference organised by the University of Huddersfield association with Sculpture Network and the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. University of Huddersfield, 26th August

'Drawing: Discourse on Method', PARCNorthWest, Manchester Metropolitan University, Wednesday 13th April

'Revelation and Concealment: Pre-Raphaelite Drawing', Keynote Address, Drawing and the Victoria Artist, two day conference, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, 18th - 19th March

'The Primacy of Drawing', School of Art, the Australian National University, Canberra, Wednesday 10th March

‘The Primacy of Drawing’, National Gallery of Victoria International, Melbourne, Monday 7th March

Gallery talk Freehand: Recent Australian Drawing exhibition, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Victoria, Saturday 5th March

'The Primacy of Drawing', The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 16th February


2010
'Picasso to Julie Mehretu: modern drawings from the British Museum', Department of Prints & Drawings, The British Museum, 15th December

'Chaste Outlines: The Sources and Formal Implications of Flaxman's Drawing Style', University College London, London, 25th November

'The Primacy of Drawing, Public lecture, The Prince's Drawing School, 29th September, 'Primacy of Drawing' National Gallery, Edinburgh, 9th November

'The Display of Wit: the performative aspect of artists' caricature', Getty Research Institute (GRI) The Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA, 19th October

'Rembrandt & Robocop, Michelangelo & Mickey Mouse: the sources of contemporary drawing' Culver Center of the Arts, University of California Riverside (UCR), Riverside, CA, 20th October

'The Primacy of Drawing' The Arts Club of Chicago, IL, 13th October

Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, Hatton Gallery, 6th October

'The Primacy of Drawing, The Prince's Drawing School, London, 29th September

The Primacy of Drawing' Lecture and Book Launch, The National Gallery, London, Sainsbury Wing Theatre, 24th September

Observation: Mapping: Dialogue, Drawing Research Network Conference, University of Brighton, 14th September

'Drawing, Embodiment and the Absent Body', (Mind, Spirit, Body, Matter Drawing Workshop), Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, 29th June

'The redundant rebus: reality checks on the functioning of the life class' & 'Art Schools: Inventions, Invective & Radical Possibilities', Chadwick Lectrure Theatre, University College London, London, 11th & 12th June

'Charged lines and vernacular bodies: artists' caricature of the 16th – 18th centuries'  The Friends of Prints and Drawing, The British Museum, 23rd March


2009
'Connections, comparisons and degeneration of the 'primordial species': George Stubbs unfinished Comparative anatomical exposition of the structure of the human body with that of a tiger and a common fowl and its relation to the theories of Camper and Blumenbach' in Nomadic 09 Conference on Art & Science, University of Porto, Portugal, September

'Tyrannies of Narrativity: The Drawings of Charles Avery' in Session 7: Drawing in the Expanded Field, conveners A. Lovatt & E. Krcma, Intersections, Association of Art Historians Annual Conference 2009, 2th - 4th April


2008
'Portraying the Ideal, the Precious and the Imaginary: Drawing as the Site of Homage', The National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, 3rd December

'Drawing from the Norwich Collection', Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery, 25th January

Deanna Petherbridge in conversation with Brian Sewell, PM Gallery & House, Ealing, London 18th January


2007
'The Persistence of Drawing', in Diversity of Drawing (organised by The Ruskin School of Drawing & Fine Art, University of Oxford and the National Gallery) The National Gallery, 17th October.

The National Gallery of Scotland, 3rd July

'George Stubbs', Yale Center for British Art, Yale University, New Haven, February & March

Contemporary Drawing: Reinvigorating the Graphic Imperative', Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 12th March


2006
'Dead Authors and Live Autographs: Problematising contemporary drawing' in Drawing Viewpoints Symposium, Gloucester University in association with Cheltenham Literary Festival, 12th October

'Graphic Subversions' Keynote Lecture, Drawing Board Conference, University of Lincoln, 7th - 8th July

'The Edinburg Collection', McNabb Memorial Lecture, Art Institute of Chicago Drawing the Future Conference, National Gallery of Art & The University of the Arts, London , March 22nd


2005
'Stubb's anatomical studies' in Stubbs and the Horse, Study Day, The National Gallery, London, 10th September

'Contradictory Strategies', Drawing Quarters 2005, Bristol School of Art, Media and Design, 14th July

'Drawing with a Scalpel: George Stubb's Anatomical Studies of Horses' Wednesday evening public lecture, The National Gallery, London, 6th July

'Stubbs' Anatomical Drawings' Stubbs Roundtable on the occasion of the opening of the exhibition Stubbs and the Horse, jointly presented by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and the National Gallery, 28th June

'Drawing as Subversive Practice', Artist's Talk (filmed) Camberwell Arts Festival, Camberwell College of Art, London, 23rd June

'In Touch and Out of Mind: The Psychodynamics of Obsessive Drawing' in Madness and Creativity International Conference, Durrell School of Corfu, Greece, 27th May

'Playing with the Provisional: The Importance of Sketching' in Drawing In-Drawing Out Symposium, The National University of Ireland, Galway, 5th March


2004
'The Rejection of Matter: Contemporary Drawings and Multi Practice' in Drawings by Sculptors from the Renaissance to Today, Conference, Cabinet des Estampes, Bibliotéque Royale de Belgique, Brussels, 3rd December

'The Primacy and Versatility of Drawing' , Bath Royal Literary & Scientific Institution, Bath, 28 September

'On Models and Mickey Mouse' Power Drawing Workshop Conference, The Campaign for Drawing and National Society for Education of Art & Design, Bath School of art & Design, Friday 10th September

'Drawing Now' Drawing Quarters, University of the West of England, Bower Ashton Campus, 16th July

'In Praise of Uninflected Line', Drawing Symposium, The Prince's Drawing School, London, 30th June

'Anatomy Lessons' The Old Operating Theatre, St. Thomas' London, 9th June

'Dürer's Drawings' conversation with Susan Foister, Dürer and the Virgin in the Garden, National Gallery, 30th March

'Signing and Signalling: Some Polemics around Sculptor's Drawings, Sculpture on Paper Symposium, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds. March


2003
'In Touch and Out of Mind' Conference contribution, Drawing Connections II: Personal Practice, Cultural Context, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney, 25th - 26th July

Key-Note address,' Meditations on a Dirty Word' Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools (ACUADS) Annual Conference, University of Tasmania, Hobart 1st - 4th October

'In Search of the Real and the Fantastical: Drawings from the Winthrop Collection' Sainsbury Lecture Theatre, The National Gallery, London, 2nd July

'Battered Bodies: The Art and Anatomy of the Human Form', Strang Print Room, The College Art Collections, University College, London, 5th March

'The Demise of System,' Post-Graduate Seminar, University College, London, 30th January


2002
'Figuring the Body: Some Trans-historical Notions about Figural Drawing' International Glass Workshop and Conference, Lybster, Caithness, Scotland 1st - 4th September


2001
Keynote Address 'Making Connections: Generative Drawing, Found Imagery and Post-Modern Practice' in Drawing Connections: The Role of Drawing in Contemporary Art and Design, College of Fine Arts, UNSW, Sydney, Australia, 24th - 25th August

'Questioning the eternal values of the life class in an age of Relativism' in La place du dessin dans líenseignement artistique, Conference, L'ecole cantonale d'art du Valais, Sierre, Switzerland, 23rd - 24th March

Keynote Lecture, 'Uneasy Practice in Contemporary Drawing' From the Doodle to the Digit Conference organised by Wimbledon School of Art and Tate Britain, 2nd March

'Gharats of the Western Himalayan Valleys', International Seminar on Traditional and Vernacular Architecture, Chennai and Hampi, India, 6th - 12th January


1999
'Popular sculpture in South and South-East Asia', Khajuraho Millennium International Architects and Sculptors Workshop, Khajuraho, India, 10th -17th April


1998
'Translations: Representation and Dimensionality' Models in the Sciences, Technology and Medicine: Displaying the Third Dimension, Wellcome Institute in association with the Science Museum, London, 13th - 14th November

'Protocols of Drawing: Drawing with the pencil through the lens' Drawing Across Boundaries Conference, Loughborough University, 17th -18th September

'Presenting the Past', in The Future of Drawing in Fine Art & Architecture, University of Huddersfield, 15th April

1997
Author and presenter of The Outline Around the Shadow, Series of five radio programmes BBC Radio 3 'Thematising the Quick and the Dead' in Theorising the Anatomical Body, The Mead Gallery and Warwick Arts Centre, 21st February

'The Gendered Ecorche: Constructing and Deconstructing the Body' in Art and Anatomy XVth-XXth Century. Centre de Pensieres, Annecy, 8th - 11th May


1996
'The Problematic of Spontaneity' in The Back of the Envelope: First Thoughts in Design Victoria & Albert Museum, January

'Subverting the Silicon' in The Challenge of Drawing Art and Design Conference Suffolk College, 26th April

Keynote address Intersection, A meeting of Art and Architecture Royal Australian Institute of Architects National Convention, Adelaide, Australia, 14th - 15th March


1995
'Delicious Deceptions: Artists and Anatomical Truths' in Art, Anatomy and the Body. The Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 8th December

'A View from the Studio'. Keynote speech Dorset 1st Arts Conference: Foundations for the Future Weymouth, Dorset, 18th March


1994
'Questioning Kitaj' in Kitaj Study Conference. Tate Gallery, 25th June

'The Making of The Primacy of Drawing', Museums Association Conference, Brighton, 12th September

'Flanagans Hare' in Post-War of Achievement: Architecture and Public Art in Britain since 1945. University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 28th March

'Drawing backwards into the Future: Formulating an Agenda' in The Role of Drawing in Fine Art Education. Wimbledon School of Art in association with the Tate Gallery