Curating as Pedagogy

Papers are invited to explore curating as a symbiotic coproduction of research and discursive convenings with knowledge sharing outputs that include exhibitions, Researcher and Artist Residencies, Public Events, and Academic Partnerships, Affiliated Teaching posts, and more, with a focus on Henry Moore and the curatorial and research strategies of the Henry Moore Studios & Gardens.

Since its founding by Moore in 1977, the Henry Moore Foundation has placed research at the heart of its curatorial practice and exhibitions programme with the largest Archival holdings on Moore being open to all. The panel highlights the research led exhibitions of HMF to disseminate new knowledge on Moore; and the new HMS&G Post Doctoral Researcher becoming an Affiliated Lecturer at the University of Cambridge.

We aim to critically reflect on the theoretical and methodological frameworks through which research, expanded learning, and the display and exhibitions on Moore’s work are conceived and received. This is to challenge centre-periphery models in Art History and exhibition histories and share scholarship and new frameworks to understand Moore’s work and its dissemination in a transhistorical and transnational context. Curating as Pedagogy in relation to Moore may serve as a place to rethink the geography of British art and the global dialogues that Moore’s work exists in.

We welcome proposals on specific exhibitions or positions on research methodologies related to Moore, and how curatorial practice itself can function as a form of research and pedagogy.

Submit your Paper via this form. Please download, complete and send it directly to the Session Convenor(s) below by Sunday 2 November 2025:

Laura Barlow, Henry Moore Studios & Gardens, Henry Moore Foundation, Laura.barlow@henry-moore.org

Laura Bruni, Henry Moore Studios & Gardens, Henry Moore Foundation, laura.bruni@henry-moore.org

Professor Alexander Marr FSA, Department of Art History, University of Cambridge, ajm300@cam.ac.uk