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Public Statues and Sculpture Association @pssatweets.bsky.social · 9d

WOWWW! ⚠️

Our 2025 PSSA Marsh Award for Excellence in Public Sculpture SHORTLIST is featured on BBC!

💥VOTE for your favourite from the SHORTLIST on our website for our PUBLIC VOTE AWARD

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READ here
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Sculptures in Sheffield and Leeds shortlisted for national award

A twisted canal boat and a sculpture celebrating inspirational women have been nominated.

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Public Statues and Sculpture Association @pssatweets.bsky.social · 3d

🚦Book for our online TALK

Imposters unmasked by Jonathan Marsden

👉Tues 11th November 6.30pm

To mark the publication this autumn of European Sculpture in the Collection of The King, the first catalogue raisonné of this part of the Royal Collection
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Royal Society of Sculptors @royalsculptors.bsky.social · 9d

Applications for the Gilbert Bayes Award for Early Career Sculptors are now open!

Apply by 13 October 2025

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Mike Pinnington @doublenegativem.bsky.social · 14d

Right up my street 🕵️

Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 14d

Recently published | What to Do with Ruins? studies ruins from the point of view of their commercial, cultural, and political usability.

Discover more here: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

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plowdensmith.bsky.social @plowdensmith.bsky.social · 20d

Making Isinglass in our paper conservation studio. Isinglass is used to consolidate parchment.
Parchment is made from treated animal skins, which is why the consolidant used is different to those more commonly used in our Paper studio for works on paper.
#PaperConservation #Parchment #Conservator

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 10d

'History and Archives in Practice, 2026': call for participation now open bit.ly/4pITZrs

HAP26 takes place @unisheffieldlib.bsky.social
on the theme of 'Shaping Societies, Improving Lives: The Impact of Archives & Historical Research'. With @ihr.bsky.social & @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy

Image of historical map with text: Call for papers: History and Archives in Practice, 16 April 2026, University of Sheffield. In partnership with the University of Sheffield Library.

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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 9d

‘He radically reimagined what his chosen medium could be [...] He blurred the boundaries between painting, sculpture and installation.’ Digby Warde-Aldam on Sam Gilliam, whose draped canvases are the focus of a thrilling exhibition in Dublin

Sam Gilliam, master draper

An inventive show at the Irish Museum of Modern Art is a thrilling introduction to a modern master of American art

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Art Herstory @artherstory.bsky.social · 9d

How Dorothea Tanning’s ‘Birthday’ painting challenged male-dominated surrealism
by Sally Jane Brown for @theconversation.com
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How Dorothea Tanning’s ‘Birthday’ painting challenged male-dominated surrealism

The artist’s 1942 painting ‘Birthday’ will be on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s upcoming ‘Dreamworld: Surrealism at 100’ exhibition.

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Doctoral & Early Career Research Network @decrarthistory.bsky.social · 13d

✨ Bookings are now OPEN for the 2025 #DECRSymposium! ✨
Beyond The Visual: Full Body in British Art History — Past, Present & Future

📅 Tuesday 7 October
📍 The Gallery, 70 Cowcross St, London EC1M 6EJ
🎤 Keynote: Christina Bradstreet (@forarthistory.org.uk)

🔗 Full program & info: tinyurl.com/nhbm5798

AUTUMN SYMPOSIUM 2025 - For Art History

BEYOND THE VISUAL: FULL BODY IN BRITISH ART HISTORY – PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE Tuesday, 7 October 2025, 10am-6pm Tickets: £12 for members, £15 for non-members Lunch is provided The Gallery, 70 Cowcros...

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Association for Art History @forarthistory.org.uk · 10d

Call for Papers: Association for Art History 2026 Annual Conference

Next year’s Art History conference will be held 8-10 April 2026 in collaboration with the History of Art department at the University of Cambridge. ⬇️

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Public Statues and Sculpture Association @pssatweets.bsky.social · 9d

It's TODAY! ⚠️

HEAR our online TALK about sculptor Arthur Fleischmann 1896-1990 and his pioneering carving in PERSPEX

Dominique Fleischmann will talk about recent publication, Arthur Fleischmann in Context – Bratislava – Vienna – Bali – Sydney
👉BOOK for today 6.30pm
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Public Statues and Sculpture Association @pssatweets.bsky.social · 9d

Sculptures in Sheffield and Leeds shortlisted for national award

A twisted canal boat and a sculpture celebrating inspirational women have been nominated.

www.bbc.com

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Public Statues and Sculpture Association @pssatweets.bsky.social · 9d

🚦Have you read our acclaimed Series of Volumes

👉Public Sculpture of Britain

inc 'Public Sculpture of Kensington and Chelsea with Westminster South-West'

We have recorded over 250 public sculptures READ detailed entries in this richly illustrated volume Buy HERE
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Public Statues and Sculpture Association @pssatweets.bsky.social · 9d

Public sculpture near YOU⚠️

Discover our acclaimed Series of Volumes

🚦Public Sculpture of Britain

Including Public Sculpture of Sussex featuring iconic Kanagawa, The Wave by William Pye in Selsey FIND out HERE pssauk.org/product/publ...

Public Statues and Sculpture Association @pssatweets.bsky.social · 9d

💥 Are you RESEARCHING public sculpture in EDINBURGH?

From OUR acclaimed series:

Public Sculpture of Britain:

READ our TWO Volumes:

🎯 Public Sculpture of Edinburgh'

A richly illustrated comprehensive account with detailed entries and richly illustrated Buy HERE
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Public Statues and Sculpture Association @pssatweets.bsky.social · 9d

💥 EXPLORE our acclaimed Series of Volumes:

'Public Sculpture of Britain'

👉Our Public Sculpture of Lancashire and Cumbria Volume features the Panopticons project inc The Singing Ringing Tree, Burnley by Tonkin Liu FIND out HERE
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Public Statues and Sculpture Association @pssatweets.bsky.social · 9d

💥WHO is on the COVER?

Have you seen OUR NEW BOOK! 'Discovering Women Sculptors' An anthology of sixteen essays on often overlooked Western women sculptors from 17thC to 20thC inc 'Mary Spencer Watson: Purbeck Sculptor' by Caroline Stanford Buy HERE
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Public Statues and Sculpture Association @pssatweets.bsky.social · 9d

EARLY WOMEN SCULPTORS⚠️

17thC Anna Maria van Schurman and Maria Faydherbe both confronted institutions to assert their talent and DEFY the conventions of their day ft in OUR 'Discovering Women Sculptors' BOOK Read HERE
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Public Statues and Sculpture Association @pssatweets.bsky.social · 9d

🚦Are you RESEARCHING WOMEN SCULPTORS?

READ our 'Discovering Women Sculptors' BOOK An anthology of sixteen essays on often overlooked Western women sculptors from 17C to Late 20thC inc Ukrainian born French Israeli Chana Orloff (1888-1968) Buy HERE
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Public Statues and Sculpture Association @pssatweets.bsky.social · 9d

🎯 Have YOU read our

'Discovering Women Sculptors' BOOK!

An anthology of sixteen essays on overlooked Western women sculptors from 17C to Late 20thC inc 'Barbara Hepworth and the Festival of Britain' by @EleanorClaytone Buy HERE pssauk.org/product/disc...

Public Statues and Sculpture Association @pssatweets.bsky.social · 24d

🎯 VOTE! for our PSSA Marsh

👉PUBLIC VOTE AWARD

from our 2025 PSSA Excellence in Public Sculpture SHORTLIST
inc

🧨 Will Maclean and Marian Leven
na Dorsan, 2024
Isle of Lewis
📸 Ralph Tongue

@marshawards.bsky.social

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Public Statues and Sculpture Association @pssatweets.bsky.social · 24d

📸 Marc Wilmot

Public Statues and Sculpture Association @pssatweets.bsky.social · 24d

🎯 VOTE! for our PSSA Marsh

👉PUBLIC VOTE AWARD

from our 2025 PSSA Excellence in Public Sculpture SHORTLIST
inc

🧨Ryan Gander
Know Not Your Place in the World, 2024
London
@ Ryan Gander, Courtesy Lisson Gallery, Photography Thierry Bal

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Public Statues and Sculpture Association @pssatweets.bsky.social · 24d

🎯 VOTE! for our PSSA Marsh

👉PUBLIC VOTE AWARD

from our 2025 PSSA Excellence in Public Sculpture SHORTLIST
inc

🧨Jason deCaires Taylor
Alluvia
Canterbury

@marshawards.bsky.social

pssauk.org/2025-pssa-ma...

Public Statues and Sculpture Association @pssatweets.bsky.social · 24d

🎯 VOTE! for our PSSA Marsh

👉PUBLIC VOTE AWARD

from our 2025 PSSA Excellence in Public Sculpture SHORTLIST
inc

🧨Pippa Hale
Ribbons
Quarry Hill, Leeds

@marshawards.bsky.social

pssauk.org/2025-pssa-ma...

Public Statues and Sculpture Association @pssatweets.bsky.social · 24d

🎯 VOTE! for our PSSA Marsh

👉PUBLIC VOTE AWARD

from our 2025 PSSA Excellence in Public Sculpture SHORTLIST
inc

🧨Alex Chinneck, Looping Boat
(The Industry) Sheffield & Tinsley Canal, Sheffield

@marshawards.bsky.social

pssauk.org/2025-pssa-ma...

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