Representing Women in Exhibition Culture: A Lecture by Meaghan Clarke, Moderated by Eksuda Singhalampong

Date and time:

19 June 2021, 18:00-20:00 (ICT) via Google Meet and Facebook Live

*[For English Speakers] The event will be held in Thai. The lecture will be in English. We will use consecutive interpretation to Thai.

          While we now know a great deal about male patrons, connoisseurs and museum directors in late nineteenth-century Britain, the contributions of women are less well-known. Yet if we turn to visual evidence at the turn of the century female visitors are invariably present in art galleries and museums. What were these women doing and why were they significant for exhibition culture? This lecture will explore the role of women in the context of a ‘blockbuster’ exhibition, entitled Fair Women, held in the Grafton Galleries, London in 1894. Organised by a committee of women, it was comprised of both historical and contemporary portraits of women as well as decorative objects.

About the speaker

          Meaghan Clarke is a Senior Lecturer of Art History at the University of Sussex. Her new book is entitled Fashionability, Exhibition Culture and Gender Politics: Fair Women (2020). She is the author of Critical Voices: Women and Art Criticism in Britain 1880-1905 (2005; 2017) and her recent articles include, ‘Women in the Galleries: New Angles on Old Masters in the Late Nineteenth Century’ 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century (2019) and ‘“The Greatest Living Critic”: Christiana Herringham and the Practice of Connoisseurship’ Visual Resources (2017). She has published essays and articles in collections and journals including Tate, Art History, RACAR, Henry James Review and Visual Culture in Britain.

This event is a part of the faculty exchange programs, Department of Art History, Faculty of Archaeology, Silpakorn University

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