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

Career

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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

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  • 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

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  1. ^ "Anne Marsh" (text & video). Performance Perspectives. Retrieved 2 November 2015.
  2. ^ a b c 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. ^ a b "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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