Conference: Ground – Horizon – Sky

Venue: The Hold, Suffolk Archives

Colchester and Ipswich Museums Services presents Ground – Horizon – Sky, delivered as part of Constable 250. This conference positions Suffolk artist John Constable’s life and work as a lens through which to re-examine historic and contemporary engagements with landscape and offers a timely platform to reconsider how landscapes have been seen, sensed, represented, contested, transformed and how they continue to shape artistic and ecological thinking today.

Highlights of the programme include a keynote address by renowned Constable expert Anne Lyles, alongside papers from Nicola Moorby (Tate), Hillary Mushkin (California Institute of Technology), Kate Brock (Researcher Royal College of Art), Clare St George (Writer and Editor), Chris Dobrowolski, Richard Denny, Jevan Watkins Jones, and Andy Corrigan with Eleanor Ling (Fitzwilliam Museum). Talks range from studies of clouds and horizons to post-war painting, architecture, walking as research practice, and digital interpretations of landscape.

Constable 250 is made possible with The National Lottery Heritage Fund. It is with thanks to National Lottery players that Ground – Horizon – Sky is delivered in collaboration with the University of Suffolk and in partnership with the Paul Mellon Centre’s Generation Landscape research programme.

Ticket price includes lunch. Please visit the Suffolk Archives website to find out more and book tickets.

Image: John Constable, Golding Constable’s Kitchen Garden, Summer 1815. Ipswich Borough Council Collection