INTERPRETING PLACE | The Influence of the Tasmanian Environment on 19th and Early 20th Century Women’s Art with Glenda King

To 19th century British and European eyes, the newly occupied island of Tasmania was a place of exotic animals, unknown plants and dynamic landscapes. This foreign, often threatening environment became a key source of inspiration for women artists and craftspeople in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Tasmania’s unique environment was recorded and interpreted in works that foreshadowed the continuing influence of the natural environment on the creative culture of Tasmania today.

GLENDA KING has worked in Australia and internationally over the past 35 years in art organisation and museum management, exhibition curation including international touring exhibitions and collection management. Until March 2013 Glenda was Manager of Visual Arts & Design at the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston.

This lecture is kindly supported by The Friends of The Johnston Collection.

Amelia Burrows (1860-1927) four-fold screen, Launceston, 1889, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, purchased with funds through the QVMAG Arts Foundation, 2006