WOMEN & THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT

Programme

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1.30pm

Welcome and introduction

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1.40-1.50

A Poetry of Presence – The Natural Environment and Women artists in the Pier Arts Centre Collection -

Kari Adams, Curatorial Assistant, Pier Arts Centre

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1.50-2.00

Gwen John’s Late Landscapes -

Helena Anderson, AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership student, Amgueddfa Cymru-Museum Wales/University of Bristol

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2.00-2.10

Under the Radar: Overlooked Landscapes in Sophie Gerrard’s Drawn to the Land and Mhairi Killin’s On Sonorous Seas -

Anne Daffertshofer, PhD Researcher, University of St Andrews

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2.10-2.20

Nature through Video: Journeys into Early Women’s Video Art -

Dr. Laura Leuzzi, AHRC Post-Doctoral Research Assistant, European Women's Video Art in 70's and 80's, Duncan of Jordanstone College & University of Dundee

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2.20-2.30 Q&A

2.30-2.45pm BREAK

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3.00-3.10

Katherine Cameron’s Depictions of Scottish Plant Lore:

A Gendered Navigation of the Twentieth Century Print Market -

Jenny MacLeod, AHRC & SGSAH PhD Researcher, University of Glasgow

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3.10-3.20 

Japanese Knotweed -

Catherine E. Van Olden, PhD Researcher, Glasgow School of Art

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3.30-3.40

We Share Our Home with Sentient Others -

Anna McLauchlan

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3.40-3.50

Archiving the Intangibility of Place (tell me the taste of a daisy) -

Dr. Gina Wall, Deputy Head, School of Fine Art, Glasgow School of Art

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3.50-4.00 Q&A

4.00-4.15pm BREAK

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4.15-4.25

Ilana Halperin’s Chaos Terrain -

Dr. Catriona McAra, Curator & Lecturer in Modern & Contemporary Art History, University of Aberdeen

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4.25-4.35

Unseen – Searching for Scottish Women in Historical Mineral Collecting -

Erika B. Anderson

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4.35-4.45

Conversations with the River -

Niamh Fahy, Visual Artist

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4.45-4.55

Survival Tools of the Anthropocene -

Dr. Saoirse Higgins, Visual Artist

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5.00-5.15pm Q&A and close