Anne Marsh (artist)
Australian sculptor and academic
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Anne Marsh is an Australian feminist art theorist. As of 2022[update] she is a 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 identifying with the emerging feminist art movement in Australia.[2] She was a member of the Women's Art Movement,[3] and was amongst the group of women artists who contributed to Lip magazine.[2] She was art critic for the Herald-Sun 1994–97.
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[update], 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