Fabrication Talks Season 2021

Hyundai Commission Kara Walker - Fons Americanus, a fountain created for Tate Modern.
Hyundai Commission Kara Walker - Fons Americanus. Tate Modern. Made by millimetre, photography by Glasshopper*

The practicalities of how an artist approaches making a sculpture have often been shrouded in mystery. The relationship between artists and skilled fabricators is rarely acknowledged.

Fabrication Talks Season 2021 was a series of online round-table discussions and in-conversation events. Artists, fabricators and academics explored the relationship between artists and skilled fabricators, making visible the ways in which contemporary sculptors realise their vision through collaboration and exchange. The series examined the ways in which sculpture making continues to evolve.

This season was a collaboration with the Henry Moore Institute and delivered in conjunction with the Universities of Leeds, York and Sheffield.

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Ivan Clarke and Petra Schmidt discussed their work on Kara Walker’s Fons Americanus, the 2019 Hyundai Turbine Hall Commission at Tate Modern, highlighting practices of sustainability in fabrication.

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Watch our talk with artist Nicola Ellis on Public Commissions and Collaborations. Part of the On Fabrication Season, in partnership with the Henry Moore Foundation.

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Artists Alice Channer, Zachary Eastwood-Bloom and Daniel Steegman Mangrané in a live round table discussion about the use of new and emerging technologies in sculptural production.

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Heather Phillipson speaks about her experience of working on public art commissions for the Fourth Plinth and for the Tate Britain Duveen Galleries.

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Thomas J Price discussed recent examples of his work with fabricators.

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Professor Karin Ruggaber (UCL), artist Simeon Barclay and fabricators Rui Pignatelli (Pangaea Sculptors’ Centre) and Nigel Schofield (MDM Props) discuss the professional relationship between sculpture and fabrication.

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