Anne Marsh is an Australian

feminist art The feminist art movement refers to the efforts and accomplishments of feminists internationally to produce feminist art, art that reflects women's lives and experiences, as well as to change the foundation for the production and perception of co ...

theorist. she is professorial research fellow at the

Victorian College of the Arts The Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) is the arts school at the University of Melbourne in Australia. It is part of the university's Faculty of Fine Arts and Music (FFAM). It is located near the Melbourne city centre on the Southbank campus ...

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, and was a member of the

Women's Art Movement The Women's Art Movement (WAM) was an Australian feminist art movement, founded in Sydney in 1974, Melbourne in 1974, and Adelaide in 1976 (as the Women's Art Group, or WAG). Background Such movements had already been created in other countries, ...

. She also belonged to the group of women artists who worked upon the ''

Lip The lips are a horizontal pair of soft appendages attached to the jaws and are the most visible part of the mouth of many animals, including humans. Mammal lips are soft, movable and serve to facilitate the ingestion of food (e.g. sucklin ...

'' 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 Performance art is an artwork or art exhibition created through actions executed by the artist or other participants. It may be witnessed live or through documentation, spontaneously developed or written, and is traditionally presented to a pu ...

in Australia ''Body and Self: Performance Art in Australia, 1969–1992''Anne Marsh. ''Body and Self: Performance Art in Australia, 1969–1992'' , Oxford University Press,1993. 262 pages, and photography and

modernism Modernism was an early 20th-century movement in literature, visual arts, and music that emphasized experimentation, abstraction, and Subjectivity and objectivity (philosophy), subjective experience. Philosophy, politics, architecture, and soc ...

from the nineteenth century onwards – ''The Darkroom: Photography and the Theatre of Desire''Anne Marsh. ''The Darkroom: Photography and the Theatre of Desire'' (Macmillan Education, 2003), 287 pages, She has also received

Australian Research Council The Australian Research Council (ARC) is the primary non-medical research funding agency of the Australian Government, distributing more than in grants each year. The Council was established by the ''Australian Research Council Act 2001'', ...

(ARC) 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

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

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Marsh, Anne Living people Academic staff of the University of Melbourne 20th-century Australian sculptors Australian women non-fiction writers 20th-century Australian women Year of birth missing (living people)