Anne Marsh (artist) explained

Anne Marsh is an Australian feminist art theorist. 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, and was a member of the Women's Art Movement.^[2] She also belonged to the group of women artists who worked upon the Lip magazine.

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^[3] and photography and modernism from the nineteenth century onwards – The Darkroom: Photography and the Theatre of Desire^[4]

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]

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

Notes and References

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