Event details
Location
- Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery
- Map location
Date and time
- Friday, 22 August 1-2pm
Event type
- Talk
Event Fee
- FREE
Registration
- Registration essential
Lost Techniques and Living Tropes:
an artist researchers exploration into a heritage 19th and early 20th century women’s watercolour practice
Friday, 22 August, 1-2pm
Hear UWA PhD student Verena Marmion discuss her thesis “Watercolour as a feminine media: A phenomenological method for feminist artist researchers to develop their practice in relation to their artistic heritage”.
Exploring historical case studies as well as her own creative practice,
Marmion argues that women artists specialising in watercolour are doubly marginalised: both for being female and for working on paper. She posits that both the material properties of watercolour - intimate and fluidic – along with the history of watercolour - as a ‘genteel ladies media’ - contribute to ‘making it a feminine and potentially feminist media’.
Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery in partnership with Fine Arts and Gender Studies UWA
Free event. Bookings essential.
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Image Credit: Verena Marmion