Anne Marsh (artist)
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 often identified with the emerging feminist art movement in Australia, was a member of the Women's Art Movement, and was amongst the group of women artists who contributed to Lip magazine. 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 and photography and modernism from the nineteenth century onwards – The Darkroom: Photography and the Theatre of Desire
She has also received Australian Research Council Discovery grants as sole researcher and as part of a team around the areas of photography, video and performance.
In 2017, she did a three-month residency at the Norma Redpath House and Studios.
, she is professorial research fellow at the Victorian College of the Arts.
Works
- Body and self : performance art in Australia 1969–92 Oxford University Press
- The Darkroom : photography and the theatre of desire Macmillan
- Pat Brassington: This is Not a Photograph, Quintus an imprint of the University of Tasmania
- Look! Contemporary Australian Photography MacmillanPerformance, Ritual, Document MacmillanDoing feminism : women's art and feminist criticism in Australia The Miegunyah Press