Print History Webinar: Thea Proctor & Queer Networks of Printmaking

Thea Proctor & Queer Networks of Printmaking - Presented by Zygote Senior Program Manager & Art Historian, Brittany M. Hudak
"For this talk, I will share some early research I have been conducting on the Australian artist Thea Proctor. One of my areas of interest is how printmaking was used as a conduit for exchange between queer women artists in the early twentieth century. I am focusing on how women artists that did not fit in traditional gender roles gravitated toward printmaking in this time period. I use the term queer to describe these women artists almost exclusively. Queer embraces the manyfold sexual preferences of these women, but most importantly it acknowledges these women's non-heterosexualities. My interest is exploring the connection between female sexual dissidence and the practices of art in this time period, and how the two intertwine. As a case study, Thea Proctor is a perfect vehicle to explore my thesis."
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Just giving a talk on Australian women artists. I taught Australian art at Canberra's Australian National University.

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Re Thea Proctor's use of mauve/purple in her costumes: see Regina Blaszczyk, The Color Revolution, which has an entire chapter on the Victorian use of the color mauve. Queen Victoria's wedding gown was mauve, which caused a fashion fad throughout the English-speaking world for mauve. NOT anything to do with being queer!