Anne Marsh (artist)

Anne Marsh is an Australian feminist art theorist. As of 2022 she is professorial research fellow at the Victorian College of the Arts.

Career

Originally trained as a sculptor in the 1970s, Marsh first was involved with sculpture performances[1] often identified with the emerging feminist art movement in Australia,[2] and was a member of the Women's Art Movement.[3] She also belonged to the group of women artists who worked upon the Lip magazine.[2]

Marsh is well known as a feminist art theorist and has published many essays, journal articles, exhibition catalogues and reviews in Australia and internationally. Monograph publications include a survey of performance art in Australia Body and Self: Performance Art in Australia, 1969–1992[2] and photography and modernism from the nineteenth century onwards – The Darkroom: Photography and the Theatre of Desire[4][5]

She has also received Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery grants as sole researcher and as part of a team around the areas of photography, video and performance.[5]

In 2017 she did a three-month residency at the Norma Redpath House and Studios.[6]

As of 2022 she is professorial research fellow at the Victorian College of the Arts.[7]

Works
  • Body and self : performance art in Australia 1969–92 (1993) Oxford University Press
  • The Darkroom : photography and the theatre of desire (2003) Macmillan
  • Pat Brassington: This is Not a Photograph, (2006) Quintus an imprint of the University of Tasmania
  • Look! Contemporary Australian Photography (2010) Macmillan
  • Performance, Ritual, Document (2014) Macmillan
  • Doing feminism : women's art and feminist criticism in Australia (2021) The Miegunyah Press

References
  1. "Anne Marsh" (text & video). Performance Perspectives. Retrieved 2 November 2015.
  2. Anne Marsh. Body and Self: Performance Art in Australia, 1969–1992 , Oxford University Press,1993. 262 pages, ISBN 9780195535068
  3. "Women's Art Movement: Summary record 1974-1986". State Library of South Australia. 24 January 2017. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  4. Anne Marsh. The Darkroom: Photography and the Theatre of Desire (Macmillan Education, 2003), 287 pages, ISBN 9781876832780
  5. "Prof Anne Marsh – The University of Melbourne". Findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au. Retrieved 31 October 2015.
  6. "Art Forum". Faculty of Fine Arts and Music. 23 September 2021. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  7. "Home page". Professor Anne Marsh. Retrieved 26 January 2022.


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