Network and the Katherine Mansfield Society on Saturday 25 June 2011 is discussed in the latest newsletter from the Katherine Mansfield Society.
This event which took place during lunchtime at the October Gallery in Old Gloucester Rd., London, was a collaboration between the newly founded New Zealand Studies Network (UK and Ireland) and the Katherine Mansfield Society. A celebration of Katherine Mansfield's life and work, it was occasioned by the presence in London of the New Zealand sculptor Virginia King, whose work was exhibited in 'Current: Contemporary Art from New Zealand and the Pacific', showing at the October Gallery as part of the City of London Festival (2011). King was recently commissioned to develop a sculpture of Katherine Mansfield by the Wellington Sculpture Society, a project inaugurated by the Katherine Mansfield Society. Professor Janet Wilson, of the New Zealand Studies Network, which hosts cultural events in London at Birkbeck, University of London, and Jo Walsh, the Gallery's programme coordinator, saw this as an opportunity to orchestrate an interdisciplinary response to Mansfield's life and art.