Lost techniques and living tropes: an artist researchers exploration into a heritage 19th and early 20th century women’s watercolour practice

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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Lines in the Sand: Women from the West foregrounds work by Western Australian women artists, drawing on the strong holdings of the Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art, The University of Western Australia Art Collection and the Berndt Museum.

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Image Credit: Verena Marmion