Humanities Lecture Series - Archaeological Housework: recording the Fiona Gorman Collection
Humanities Lecture Series - Archaeological Housework: recording the Fiona Gorman Collection
Humanities Lecture Series
Date: Wednesday 22 May 2019
Time: 12:00 - 13:30
Venue: Room 109, Gregory Building
Category: Public lectures
Speaker: Dr Nyree Finlay (Archaeology)
Website: www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/events/humanitieslectureseries/headline_631975_en.html
All welcome but please register on Eventbrite
Come and hear about the contemporary archaeological research project behind the Archaeological Housework exhibition (New Victoria Hospital, Mount Florida May-Dec 2019). This illustrated lecture open to the general public celebrates Fiona Gorman an artistic carer on Arran facing dementia, and her unique collection of found objects. The talk will explore her recreational passion for archaeology and the creative pleasures from being at home with stone. Part of the Luminate Festival 2019