In his opening address to the conference, Jon wood, who coordinates the research programme at the Institute, traced the origins of the conference to a series of exploratory conversations on the relationship between archaeology and contemporary art with independent curator Katy rochester. From the outset, wood, rochester and their colleagues in leeds sought proposals from archaeologists who were interested in sculpture and in sharing new ideas with sculpture historians. They were especially keen on receiving papers that attempted to identify those historical moments when there seems to have been an intense crossover between sculpture and archaeological discovery, when the ways.
