Interdisciplinary and provocative study between an archaeologist and an artist discussing the disciplines' principles, while providing ways to rethink archaeology, the visual arts and the two subjects' shared themes.
Doug Bailey is Professor of Visual Archaeology at San Francisco State University, USA. He is the author of Prehistoric Figurines (2005), Unearthed (2010) and Breaking the Surface (2018). He has directed excavations in Bulgaria and Romania, and has curated exhibitions at the International Museum Contemporary Sculpture, Portugal (2020) and Carpintarias Saõ Lázaro, Portugal (2021). He is an established expert in the archaeology of art and the prehistoric archaeology of Europe.Simon Callery is an artist based in London, UK. He has exhibited internationally since the 1990s and has worked alongside field archaeologists since 1996. His work has been shown in the UK at the Saatchi Gallery, Royal Academy of Arts, Tate Britain, and the British Museum. Museum group shows include the following: Brooklyn Museum, New York; Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou; Rudolfinum, Prague; and the Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome. Recent solo gallery shows include Lo Brutto Stahl (Paris), Unosunove (Rome), Rafael Perez Hernando (Madrid), and Annex 14 (Zurich).
