A Conversation exploring how women artists make work between and about our domestic and professional spaces. This event was part of Sally Madge’s exhibition, Nowhere better than this place.
What do we know about how Sally made work? Did she move between her domestic spaces and professional spheres like many artists do? How did her home, her kitchen table, allotment, studio, workplaces, exhibition venues, favourite places in the landscape all contribute to her artistic process and subjects for her work? What might we understand more fully about our own and future artist practices that also transcend these different physical, social and political domains?
NCA is delighted to welcome two amazing women to ground our conversation in their research and curatorial practices: Dr. Particia Zakreski, Senior Lecturer in Victorian Literature and Culture, Exeter University and Dr. Caroline Gausden, writer and discursive curator based in Glasgow. Currently, Development Worker for Programming and Curating at Glasgow Women’s Library.
Dr Caroline Gausden is a new addition to the team having joined Glasgow Women’s Library (GWL), in December 2018. Before working at the Library Caroline was based in Aberdeen where she completed a practice based PhD in Feminist Manifestos and Social Art Practice. She is a Development Worker for Programming, Curating, Partnerships and Participation at GWL. This role involves her moving between all the different facets of the organisation, from the archive to the library shelves and surrounding neighbourhood, to think about how the collection and public programme continue to speak to each other and to the diverse groups of people who are at home in the Library.
Dr. Patricia Zakreski is a Senior Lecturer in Victorian Literature and Culture at the University of Exeter, where she is also the Director for the Centre for Victorian Studies. Her books include Representing Female Artistic Labour 1848-1890: Refining Work for the Middle Class Woman, the co-edited collection Crafting the Woman Professional in the Long Nineteenth Century: Artistry and Industry in Britain, and the co-edited reader What is a Woman to Do? A Reader on Women, Work and Art, c. 1830-90. Click here to download a PDF of the book. Her current work explores the relationship between authorship and the decorative arts in the second half of the nineteenth century. She is also co-editing a multi-volume reader on Art Education in the Long Nineteenth Century.