PICTISH ARTS SOCIETY

CONFERENCE, 3 - 4 OCTOBER 2026

 

What makes Pictish art Pictish? This year, our annual conference brings experts to

examine exactly this question, followed by a day of exciting research updates from the

field.

 

Tickets

Tickets are £12 members/£15 non-members, plus a small booking fee. Click the button below to buy them from Ticketsource (our ticketing app).

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Conference Agenda

Saturday 3rd of October

Day 1: The Pictishness of Pictish Art 

13.30-13.40 Log on

13.40-13.50 Welcome Professor Jane Geddes

13.50-14.30 Insular Art and its Pictish Components Professor Jane Geddes

14.30-14.40 Q&A

14.40-15.20 The changing artistry of the Pictish

 symbols over time Dr Martin Goldberg

15.20-15.30 Q&A

15.30-15.50 BREAK

15.50-16.30 Stone and the gods: religious cognition

and stone carving in first millennium AD

Northern Britain Prof Gordon Noble

16.30-16.40 Q&A

16.40-17.20 Pictish metalwork Andy Heald

17.20-17.30 Q&A

 

Sunday 4th of October

Day 2: New Research on Pictish Art and its Context

13.40-13.50 Welcome/Log in

13.50-14.40 Recent discoveries at Burghead by

Aberdeen’s Northern Picts Project Dr Ellie Graham

14.50-15.20 On the mooooove: cattle, connectivity,

and catchments of clientship at Burghead Prof Kate Britton

15:20 - 15:30 Q&A

15:30 - 15:50 BREAK

15:50 - 16:30 Different strokes: changing identities

and connectivity between Iron Age

Ireland and Northern Britain Dr Rena Maguire

16:40 - 17:20 Playing with the Picts: Art and Accuracy in Carved in Stone Dr Heather Christie

17:20 - 17:30 Q&A

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Abstracts and Speakers’ Details to follow.

 

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