Sculpture and Science Fiction

Presented by David Worthington

This lecture traces the relationship between the histories of sculpture and science fiction in the 20th century. Starting with Jacob Epstein’s Rock Drill of 1913 the lecture will show how the search by many artists for a simplified expression of human experience created imagery that fed into the depiction of robots and aliens in Science Fiction films. This became a cross-cultural fertilisation when artists started incorporating Sci-Fi imagery into their own work particularly with the advent of Pop Art. The lecture explains how Modernist sculpture created an arena of the unknown that worked perfectly as an experimental lab for symbols and forms ready to be appropriated by film makers who boldly went where no man or woman had gone before.

Dates and Locations

Wednesday 27 May 2026 Toowoomba (QLD)

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