Thursday 5th November 2026 at The Henley Rugby Club.10.00am - 3.00pm. (Booking Thursday 17th September 2026). Cost £45.00. Coffee from 10.00am. 1st lecture 10.45am - 11.45am. 2nd lecture 12.00pm - 1.00pm. Sandwich lunch 1.00pm - 2.00pm. 3rd lecture 2.00pm - 3.00pm approximately. Free parking. For more information on all Special Interest Days please contact Diana Jones on diana.jones@btinternet.com or 0118 947 8762/mobile 07799 661 459.
Anna Moszynska
Sculpture from Epstein to Emin
1. From Jacob Epstein to the ‘Geometry of Fear’ - The Rise of Modern British Sculpture during the first half of the 20th Century. (The Geometry of Fear was an informal group or school of young British sculptors in the years after the Second World War).
Jacob Epstein 10th November 1880 - 21st August 1959
British sculptors played a pioneering role, affecting sculpture throughout the world.
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2. The Body as a Place - the sculpture of Antony Gormley. Our lecturer has known Gormley since he was at the Slade and written two books about his drawings.
The Angel of the North, Antony Gormley
3. Fresh Encounters - Contemporary Sculpture and the Public Space - considering the works of Henry Moore, Tracey Emin, Antony Gormley, Anish Kapoor, Claes Oldenburg, Cornelia Parker, Rachel Whiteread and others.
Henry Moore - Reclining Figure Tracy Emin - My Bed Claes Oldenburg & Coosje van Bruggen - Flying Pins
Anish Mikhail Kapoor - Orbit Antony Gormley - Iron Man Cornelia Parker -
The Distance (A Kiss With String Attached)
Rachel Whiteread - Embankment
Anna Moszynska is a London-based lecturer and writer specialising in contemporary art. During the 1990s, she oversaw the development of the subject as the first Master’s Degree at Sotheby’s Institute. She has also taught at other institutions in London including The City Lit, the Royal Academy and Tate, as well as lecturing in cities ranging from Dubai to New York and Berlin to Sydney. She continues to offer guest lectures on the Sotheby’s Institute MA in Contemporary Art. Apart from the many catalogue essays she has written on living artists, many of whom are women, her books include Abstract Art (1990, enlarged ed. 2020) and Sculpture Now (2013), both published by Thames & Hudson, and two books on the drawings of Antony Gormley, whose work she has curated at MACRO, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome. She enjoys introducing art to audiences in a lively and approachable way to make modern and contemporary art both accessible and interesting.