Friday Talk: Portraits of Maternity (expired event)

Join UWA Associate Professor of English and Literary Studies, Alison Bartlett, as she explores the exhibition The Artist and Her Work through the lens of representations of maternity.

Join UWA Associate Professor of English and Literary Studies, Alison Bartlett, as she explores the exhibition The Artist and Her Work through the lens of representations of maternity.

Alison Bartlett’s research focuses on feminist literature, histories, cultures and pedagogies. She has published books on Australian women’s writing, contemporary maternal culture and flirting in the era of #metoo, and has edited books on Australian feminist objects, breastfeeding ethics, Australian literature, and postgraduate supervision. She has been teaching English, Cultural Studies, and Gender Studies at UWA since 2005, and previously taught literature at the University of Southern Queensland.

The Artist and Her Work
25 May — 7 December 2019
Drawn from the Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art, this exhibition explores Lady Sheila Cruthers’ collection strategy of acquiring an artist’s work in addition to a self-portrait, with the two pieces often hung side by side. The Artist and Her Work utilises this unusual juxtaposition to showcase the breadth and depth of women’s art practice, replicating the dense and vibrant hanging style of the collection’s original domestic context.

UWA Campus Partner: Faculty of Arts: English & Literary Studies

Image: Installation view, The Artist and Her Work. Photograph by Ilkka K Photography.