A series of quick-fire art talks in conjunction with the exhibition Margaret Stoddart: Garden Scene.

The quick-fire talks and panel Q&A session will run for approximately one hour.

Allow extra time to view the exhibition Margaret Stoddart: Garden Scene and the Te Whare Waiutuutu Kate Sheppard House visitor experience.

Speaker topics

  • Dr Rosie Ibbotson, Painting plants: Colonial visual cultures and the ecopolitics of “Nature”.
  • Bojana Rimbovska, Seeking a standard: Early art education at the Canterbury College School of Art.
  • Lydia Baxendell, Passing the torch - Stoddart, Suffrage and the rise of female artists in Aotearoa.
  • Louise Palmer, also her daughter, feminisms and histories from Kate to Polly-Jean.

 

Photo credit: Louise Palmer, Research image, Nursery tag for Kate Sheppard Camellia, from Christchurch Botanic Gardens archive.