In conversation with Dr Caroline Shenton, Jolyon Brewis, Julian Harrap and Gerard Stamp Thank you for joining us at our 13th GE Moore Lecture for short talks and a panel discussion led by Simon Yiend, Chief Operating Officer at the College. The recent restoration of Charles Barry Junior’s Dulwich College mirrors the much larger project to restore Charles Barry Senior’s great Palace of Westminster. We reflect on these buildings and the wider Dulwich College landscape in the company of Dr Caroline Shenton, historian of the Houses of Parliament, Jolyon Brewis of Grimshaw Architects, who designed The Laboratory, and Julian Harrap of Julian Harrap Architects, who has been involved in the restoration of the Barry Buildings. Also with us is the artist Gerard Stamp who will reveal his new painting Dulwich College 400 (2018) 150 years after Pissarro painted the then New College. Dr Caroline Shenton is an archivist and historian. She was formerly Director of the Parliamentary Archives in London, and before that a senior archivist at the National Archives. Her first book The Day Parliament Burned Down won the Political Book of the Year Award in 2013. Its highly-acclaimed sequel, Mr Barry’s War , about the rebuilding of the Palace of Westminster, was a Book of the Year in 2016 for The Daily Telegraph and BBC History Magazine . Caroline teaches Public History to postgraduates at the Centre for Archives and Information Studies at the University of Dundee, and during 2017 was a Political Writer in Residence at Gladstone’s Library. Jolyon is a partner at Grimshaw, the practice founded by Sir Nicholas Grimshaw in 1980. Having led the design team on the Eden Project in Cornwall he has recently worked in diverse locations, ranging from Morecambe in Lancashire to Qingdao in China. Jolyon’s enjoyment of collaboration is demonstrated by his work on The Core at Eden Project and The Laboratory at Dulwich College, on which he collaborated with the sculptor Peter Randall-Page RA. He is currently involved in master planning, urban design and architecture for the carbon-neutral expansion of Heathrow Airport. One of Britain’s most respected architectural conservationists, Julian Harrap was educated and undertook his architectural training under the tutelage of Sir Lesley Martin, Sir James Stirling and Sir Colin St John Wilson. He has developed a particular knowledge and understanding of the design, technology and materials employed in the conservation of historic buildings and landscapes. He advises grant-giving agencies such as the Getty Foundation and the National Heritage Lottery Board. Julian initially oversaw a restoration of parts of the Barry Buildings in 2002. The practice was re-commissioned by the College in 2015 to complete this work, with restoration work beginning in 2017.
Dulwich College 400
Gerard Stamp lives and works in Norfolk, and has a passion for painting and drawing architecture, born out of schooldays lived under the shadow of Norwich Cathedral. He tries to convey the spirit of a place, with light and atmosphere his principal concerns. Gerard has work in many private and public collections including Norwich Castle Art Gallery and The Royal Collection.
He is the brother of the late Gavin Stamp OA, the eminent architectural historian who, as a pupil at the College, fought for the protection of the Barry Buildings. This inspired in him a life-long love of Victorian architecture.
Pissarro’s Dulwich College (1871) was painted while he was living in Upper Norwood having left Paris as a result of the Franco-Prussian War. It shows the palatial Barry Buildings from beyond the pond on the far side of College Road, bathed in autumnal light. The painting will be on show at the Dulwich Picture Gallery from 20 April to late August 2019. Gerard Stamp’s Dulwich College 400 (2018), commissioned by the Master for the quatercentenary, will be on display
at various locations in Dulwich over the course of the spring and summer. It captures the newly restored Barry Buildings, with a teasing view of The Laboratory, distilling the essence of Dulwich today. Prints of Gerard Stamp’s painting are available to purchase for the first time tonight or visit https://shop.dulwich.org.uk/store/
Dulwich Roll
Throughout the 400th anniversary year, members of the worldwide Dulwich Community are invited to sign a commissioned vellum book complete with Coat of Arms and heraldic decoration. We would like to invite all those attending the lecture to sign the Dulwich Roll tonight.
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