Charles Burton, Coal Train, c.

1949 Charles Burton

Crossing Borders
a conference on art and literature to accompany the exhibition

Four Painters in Raymond Williams Border Country

at MOMA Machynlleth
Saturday 5 November 2016

This one-day conference considers depictions by artists and writers of everyday life and the
borders between people, whether national, local, social or generational. It accompanies the
exhibition Four Painters in Raymond Williams Border Country, which features contemporaries
of Williams working in South Wales from the 1930s to the 1950s, Joan Baker, Charles
Burton, John Elwyn and Bert Isaac. The speakers include academics, curators, artists and
writers programme overleaf.

15 (10 unwaged) includes tea and coffee

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Crossing Borders Programme

10am Coffee
10.15

Welcome and introduction

Morning Session : Art and Literature in the 1930s to 1950s

10.30
Dr Peter Wakelin, exhibition curator
Four realist painters in South Wales: Baker, Burton, Elwyn, Isaac
11.00
Professor Daniel G. Williams, Swansea University
Raymond Williams and the Image
11.30
Peter Lord, independent scholar
Related Landscapes: some lines of communication in Welsh painting from the
30s to the 50s
12.00
Dan Gerke, Swansea University
Raymond Williams on Realism
12.20
Break to visit the exhibition
Attendees make own arrangements for lunch (choice of cafs & shops)
Afternoon Session : Borders and Crossings in Art and Literature
13:30
Dr Mary-Ann Constantine, Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
Boundaries, drawn by the eye: Crossing borders in Romantic-era Wales
14:00
Clare Davies, Swansea University
T. S. Eliot, Raymond Williams and Satellite Cultures
14:20
Dr Luke Thurston, Aberystwyth University
Unhomely Borders
14.50

Tea

15:15

Discussion with contemporary writers and artists, John Barnie, Jon Gower
and Marged Pendrell, chaired by Mary-Ann Constantine

16.15

End

Hosted at MOMA Machynlleth with support from the Richard Burton Centre
at Swansea University. The exhibition was initiated by the National Eisteddfod
of Wales at Abergavenny with support from the Arts Council of Wales and the
Morel Trust. It continues at MOMA Machynlleth until 19 November, after
which it completes its tour at Chepstow Museum 26 November-26 February.