Medieval Scotlands Seminar Series: Cynthia Thickpenny In brief Date - 19 November 2024Venue - Project Room 1.06, 50 George Square and onlineSpeaker - Dr Cynthia Thickpenny (University of Edinburgh)Title - Patterns of Communication: Women as Inventors of Pattern in Insular Art Email Kate Mathis to attend online About the eventThis event will showcase research from Dr Thickpenny’s current Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship project, focusing on two complex types of geometric ornament in the art of early medieval Ireland and Britain: key pattern and the transmutation of patterns. In particular, it will compare Pictish carved stones with a contemporary set of late 8th- to early 9th-century English tablet-woven textiles in silk and gold thread (now held in Maaseik, Belgium).In Britain and Ireland in this historical period, textiles were made by women. Using the Maaseik textiles as representative of wider trends shared in what is now Scotland, and by combining academic analysis with practical research in tablet-weaver, Dr Thickpenny will explore how women tablet-weavers impacted the development of Insular ornament in other media such as metalwork, manuscripts, and carved stone, as respected artist-geometers in their own right.About the speakerDr Cynthia Thickpenny is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in History of Art at the Edinburgh College of Art. Her project, ‘The Transmutation of Patterns and the Role of Women in Insular Art’, is funded by the Leverhulme Trust. In 2020, as part of a multi-university team, she edited and published Peopling Insular Art: Practice, Performance, Perception, the Proceedings of the eighth International Conference on Insular Art.About the seriesCeltic and Scottish Studies is delighted to host a series of interdisciplinary events exploring the formation, development, and perception of medieval Scotland in terms of the constituent linguistic, literary, and material cultures – Brythonic, Pictish, Gaelic, Norse, Scots, and English – from which Scotland emerges.Attendance is welcome both in person or online.How to attendThis event is free to attend, and open to all. No registration is necessary for attending in person - to register for online attendance, please email Kate Mathis. Email Kate Mathis to attend online Are you interested in Celtic and Scottish Studies?We offer three undergraduate degrees and a number of postgraduate programmes, both taught and research-led, drawing on excellent teaching and research and access to world-leading collections and archives. Find out more about Celtic and Scottish Studies at Edinburgh Nov 19 2024 16.30 - 18.00 Medieval Scotlands Seminar Series: Cynthia Thickpenny Join our colleagues in Celtic and Scottish Studies for this hybrid seminar as part of their new Medievals Scotlands series. Dr Cynthia Thickpenny (University of Edinburgh) will present on the theme of 'Patterns of Communication'. Project Room 1.06 50 George Square University of Edinburgh EH8 9LH and online Find the venue: 50 George Square Email Kate Mathis to attend online
Medieval Scotlands Seminar Series: Cynthia Thickpenny In brief Date - 19 November 2024Venue - Project Room 1.06, 50 George Square and onlineSpeaker - Dr Cynthia Thickpenny (University of Edinburgh)Title - Patterns of Communication: Women as Inventors of Pattern in Insular Art Email Kate Mathis to attend online About the eventThis event will showcase research from Dr Thickpenny’s current Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship project, focusing on two complex types of geometric ornament in the art of early medieval Ireland and Britain: key pattern and the transmutation of patterns. In particular, it will compare Pictish carved stones with a contemporary set of late 8th- to early 9th-century English tablet-woven textiles in silk and gold thread (now held in Maaseik, Belgium).In Britain and Ireland in this historical period, textiles were made by women. Using the Maaseik textiles as representative of wider trends shared in what is now Scotland, and by combining academic analysis with practical research in tablet-weaver, Dr Thickpenny will explore how women tablet-weavers impacted the development of Insular ornament in other media such as metalwork, manuscripts, and carved stone, as respected artist-geometers in their own right.About the speakerDr Cynthia Thickpenny is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in History of Art at the Edinburgh College of Art. Her project, ‘The Transmutation of Patterns and the Role of Women in Insular Art’, is funded by the Leverhulme Trust. In 2020, as part of a multi-university team, she edited and published Peopling Insular Art: Practice, Performance, Perception, the Proceedings of the eighth International Conference on Insular Art.About the seriesCeltic and Scottish Studies is delighted to host a series of interdisciplinary events exploring the formation, development, and perception of medieval Scotland in terms of the constituent linguistic, literary, and material cultures – Brythonic, Pictish, Gaelic, Norse, Scots, and English – from which Scotland emerges.Attendance is welcome both in person or online.How to attendThis event is free to attend, and open to all. No registration is necessary for attending in person - to register for online attendance, please email Kate Mathis. Email Kate Mathis to attend online Are you interested in Celtic and Scottish Studies?We offer three undergraduate degrees and a number of postgraduate programmes, both taught and research-led, drawing on excellent teaching and research and access to world-leading collections and archives. Find out more about Celtic and Scottish Studies at Edinburgh Nov 19 2024 16.30 - 18.00 Medieval Scotlands Seminar Series: Cynthia Thickpenny Join our colleagues in Celtic and Scottish Studies for this hybrid seminar as part of their new Medievals Scotlands series. Dr Cynthia Thickpenny (University of Edinburgh) will present on the theme of 'Patterns of Communication'. Project Room 1.06 50 George Square University of Edinburgh EH8 9LH and online Find the venue: 50 George Square Email Kate Mathis to attend online
Nov 19 2024 16.30 - 18.00 Medieval Scotlands Seminar Series: Cynthia Thickpenny Join our colleagues in Celtic and Scottish Studies for this hybrid seminar as part of their new Medievals Scotlands series. Dr Cynthia Thickpenny (University of Edinburgh) will present on the theme of 'Patterns of Communication'.
