LOCKDOWN JOURNAL: COVID-19.8 (Rebecca Wade)
‘Sculpture from the Sofa’ is a series of short videos that aim to share knowledge and enthusiasm for sculpture, based on domestic objects collected over the last decade or so. This episode features a plaster cast of ‘L’Inconnue de la Seine’ (‘The Unknown Woman of the Seine’), its apocryphal origin story and the ways in which it has entered popular culture.
Dr Rebecca Wade is a freelance art historian and curator. She completed her PhD at the University of Leeds in 2012 and her research interests sit between nineteenth-century museum and exhibitionary cultures, art and design education and the production, circulation and display of sculpture and its reproductions.
She has completed postdoctoral research projects with the Museum of Classical Archaeology, the Henry Moore Institute and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. She is co-editor of Art versus Industry? Visual and Industrial Cultures in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Manchester University Press, 2016) and her research monograph Domenico Brucciani and the Formatori of Nineteenth-Century Britain was published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2019.
As Assistant Curator (Sculpture) for Leeds Museums and Galleries she curated exhibitions and displays including Object Lessons (2015-16), Mary Gillick: Her Art in Your Pocket (2017-18), A Frieze for Leeds: Imagining a Sculptural Facade for Leeds Art Gallery in 1968 (2018), Lucia Nogueira (2018-19), Statuemania (2019), Woodwork: A Family Tree of Sculpture (2019-20) and Joseph Gott: Second Cousins / Three Variations (2020-21).
Contact: r.wade@me.com
Twitter: @DrRebeccaWade