‘Migration, Memory and the Visual Arts: Second-Generation (Jewish) Artists’ Symposium University of Leicester 2021

Organisers: Dr Imogen Wiltshire and Dr Fransiska Louwagie

Keynote speaker: Dr Glen Sujo, author and curator of ‘Legacies of Silence: The Visual Arts and Holocaust Memory’, Imperial War Museum.

Fay co-presented a paper with artist Judy Goldhill as part of ‘Panel 2: Art-Making, Process and Identity in the session: Inner Recreation: Psychoanalysis and Second-Generation Visual Arts’. The paper examined links between a need for reparation and the origin of the creative impulse, looking at psychoanalytic ideas on creativity. The paper explored the work of two second-generation artist-daughters who have collaborated on exhibitions; Judy Goldhill who was brought up by parents and relatives affected by the Holocaust, and Fay, whose father was placed in a Japanese internment camp during World War Two.

The conference was supported by Association for Art History (AAH), Cultural Literacy Everywhere (CLE), Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and School of Arts, University of Leicester. The conference papers have been published in ‘European Judaism: A Journal for the New Europe’ edition 23/1 by Leo Baeck College.