The third presentation in our Sculpture Lecture series will focus on the relation between Sculpture, Photography and Drawing. Jon Wood, research curator and art historian, The Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, and Co-editor of Sculpture Journal will present his lecture `Drawing on Sculpture: Graphic Interventions on the Photographic Surface´.

Jon Wood is ‘Research Curator’ at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds, where he coordinates the academic research programme and curates exhibitions. He is also co-editor of the Sculpture Journal. He specialises in modern and contemporary sculpture, particularly sculpture in Britain and Europe. He has written widely on the work of many sculptors, including: Brancusi, Moore, Picasso, Giacometti, Gaudier-Brzeska, Boccioni and contemporaries such as Tony Cragg, Richard Deacon and Phyllida Barlow. He also has a particular research interest in the artist's studio and his studio writings have been recently reprinted in The Fall of the Studio (Valiz, 2009), The Studio Reader (University of Chicago Press, 2010) and The Studio (MIT/Whitechapel, 2012). Recent publications include: Modern Sculpture Reader (with Potts and Hulks) (HMI 2007, and Getty 2012), The Sculpture of Bill Woodrow (with Julia Kelly) (Lund Humphries, 2013), a new edition of H.S. Ede's Savage Messiah (with Barassi and Silber) (2011) and Articulate Objects: Voice, Sculpture, and Performance (with Satz) (2009) and recent exhibitions and exhibition catalogues include: Making It: Sculpture in Britain 1977-1986 (2015), 1913: The Shape of Time (2012-13), United Enemies: The Problem of Sculpture in Britain in the 1960s and 1970s (2011-12), Nice Style: The World’s First Pose Band (2011) and Carl Plackman: Sculpture, Drawing, Writing (Huddersfield Art Gallery, 2007).

Jon Wood is invited through IASPIS expert visit program and the presentation is organized by Galleri Box, Snowball Cultural Productions/SculptureHUB and Akademi Valand and co-funded by Stiftelsen Längmanska kulturfonden.