Talks, lectures & papers
8 October 2024, Millennium Galleries, Sheffield. Talk: Seeing From All Sides: The Early Work of Tess Jaray.1 July 2024, Paul Mellon Centre Summer Symposium / Ikon Gallery, Birmingham. Conference: Precarity in Art History. Paper: Inhabiting Frail Structures: Precariousness in Sculpture by Women, 1978-1993.
29 March 2023, University of Leeds / Henry Moore Institute. Conference: Touch-Space: The Tactile Imagination in Contemporary Sculptural Practice. Paper: Points of Contact: Phyllida Barlow’s Shedmesh (1976) and an expanded exploration of touch.
7 July 2022, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull. Talk to mark the opening of Breaking the Mould: Sculpture by Women since 1945.
22 June 2022, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Conference: Women & Sculpture: New Histories & Futures.
25 March 2022, Arts Institute, University of Plymouth. Talk to mark the opening of Breaking the Mould: Sculpture by Women since 1945 at The Box and Levinsky Gallery, Plymouth.
6 November 2021, Waddington Custot, London. Talk: Making It: Women & Abstract Sculpture.
18 September 2021, University of Nottingham. Lecture to mark the opening of Breaking the Mould: Sculpture by Women since 1945 at Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham.
Panels & chairing
27 June 2024, Henry Moore Foundation, Perry Green, Hertfordshire. Conference: Brancusi, Britain and the Idea of Modern Sculpture. Session chair: papers by artists Toby Christian, Nicholas Pope and David Ward.
4 May 2022, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds. Discussion event: Researching Women in Sculpture: Breaking the Mould: Sculpture by Women since 1945, with Rosamund Lily West, Hilary Gresty and Permindar Kaur.
4 December 2021, Lakeside Arts, University of Nottingham. Breaking the Mould Study Day: chair of this day of presentations and discussions.
30 April 2021, Aesthetica Future Now Symposium (online). Panelist: discussion on women working in sculpture chaired by Holly Trusted, with artists Rana Begum, Holly Hendry and Permindar Kaur.
15 April 2021, Association for Art History Conference (online). Chair of panel discussion with Dr Abi Shapiro, Bianca Chu and Dr Sarah Turner.
10 March 2021, Royal Society of Sculptors (online). Pioneering Women Conference: co-organiser and co-chair with Dr Rosamund Lily West and Dr Melanie Veasey.
12/13 March 2020, The Hepworth Wakefield. Hepworth Research Network Launch: contributor and panelist.
11 July 2019, University of Leeds. Working in Sculpture: Gender, Diversity & Creativity: Panelist. Discussion chaired by Professor Griselda Pollock, with Emii Alrai, Eleanor Clayton, Lorna Green and Veronica Ryan.
5 February 2018, Institute of Transplantation Lecture Theatre, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Panelist. Discussion chaired by Dr. Catherine George and Hilary Gresty, with Christine Borland and Sheyda A. Khaymaz.
Conversations with artists
18 January 2025, Hypha Studios, London. Chair of discussion event: Abstract Vernacular - Continuing Conversations. With the Talking Sculpture Making collective.
28 September 2024, MIMA, Middlesbrough. Co-chair of discussion event: Hypha Interlaced: a conversation. With Becky Gee and artists from Hypha Collective.
10 July 2024, Royal Academy of Arts, London. Chair of discussion event: On Sculpture: Cornelia Parker and Veronica Ryan In Conversation [image: above].
21 March 2024, York St John University. Symposium: Talking Sculpture: Dialectics of Making paper and panelist with Gillian Brent and Charlotte Cullen, chaired by Sarah Roberts.
13 April 2023, New Art Gallery Walsall. Chair of discussion event: Rana Begum and Alice Channer in conversation with Natalie Rudd [image: below].
12 November 2021, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham. Chair of discussion event: Richard Deacon and Bill Woodrow in conversation with Natalie Rudd.
24 February 2017, Attenborough Arts Centre, Leicester. Chair of discussion event: Ryan Gander in conversation with Natalie Rudd.
18 June 2003, Tate Britain. Chair of discussion event: Peter Blake in conversation with Natalie Rudd.
Selected filmed conversations with artists
Selected filmed gallery tours
In My Shoes: Art & the Self since the 1990s
Audio & TV
Baring, Jo and Sarah Turner, Sculpting Lives, contributor to series 2, episode 6, Making Sculpture Public, released 6 December 2021.
Melvyn Bragg, The South Bank Show: Peter Blake, contributor to episode which aired on 19 November 2006.
