Timed to coincide with the Courtauld Gallery’s current exhibition, A View of One’s Own: Landscape Drawings by British Women Artists, 1760-1860, this conference aims to investigate the challenges and opportunities presented by the recovery and re-presentation of historic women artists whose work and reputations have fallen out of art historical narratives.
Bringing together art historians and curators, this conference will explore various approaches to the complexities of bringing to light artists long overlooked by art history, whether in an exhibition or through the written word.
This conference is organised by Dr. Rachel Sloan, Associate Curator for Works on Paper, the Courtauld.
Programme Schedule:
10.00-10.30: Registration
10.30 – 10.40: Welcome and opening remarks (Rachel Sloan)
10.40 – 11.50: Session 1
Paris Spies-Gans (independent scholar)
On the Horizon: The Challenges of Reestablishing the Professional Legacies of Women Landscapists
Susan Owens (independent scholar)
Mountains and Moods
Hannah Lyons (University of Reading)
Beyond Accomplishment: Lady Louisa Augusta Greville’s (1743-1779) Etchings
11.50 – 12.20 : Coffee break
12.20 – 1.30: Session 2
Ella Nixon (The Women’s Art Collection, Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge)
Women Artists in Regional Galleries: Local Opportunities with Global Significance
Alice Strickland (Royal Collection Trust)
Victorian Women Artists and Queen Victoria’s matronage
Lara Nicholls (National Gallery of Victoria)
Light Moves: Impressionist Women Artists in the Imperial Art World
1.30 – 2.30: Lunch break
2.30 – 3.40: Session 3
Anita V. Sganzerla (Katrin Bellinger Collection)
By her hand? Women artists at work
Linda Goddard (University of St Andrews)
“I am my own heroine”: women artists, life writing, and self-construction
Alice Dodds (Courtauld Institute)
A Living Garment: Elizabeth Peacock and Britain’s Lost Modernism
3.40 – 4.10: Break
4:10 – 4.55: Session 4
Aindreas Scholz (Independent artist/Technological University Dublin)
Unfixing the Amateur: Anna Atkins, Cyanotype Networks, and the Afterlives of Overlooked Women’s Landscape Practice
Rachael Field and Sarah-Joy Ford (Independent artists/University of Leeds)
A Leap into the Glorious Dark: Making Lesbian Art History Together
4.55: Closing remarks and drinks
