Anne Marsh is an Australian feminist art theorist. As of 2022 [update] she is professorial research fellow at the Victorian College of the Arts.
Originally trained as a sculptor in the 1970s, Marsh first was involved with sculpture performances [1] often identified with the emerging feminist art movement in Australia, [2] was a member of the Women's Art Movement, [3] and was amongst the group of women artists who contributed to Lip magazine. [2] She was art critic for the Herald-Sun 1994–97.
Marsh is well known as a feminist art theorist and has published many essays, journal articles, exhibition catalogues and reviews in Australia and internationally. Monograph publications include a survey of performance art in Australia Body and Self: Performance Art in Australia, 1969–1992 [2] and photography and modernism from the nineteenth century onwards – The Darkroom: Photography and the Theatre of Desire [4] [5]
She has also received Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery grants as sole researcher and as part of a team around the areas of photography, video and performance. [5]
In 2017, she did a three-month residency at the Norma Redpath House and Studios. [6]
As of 2022 [update] , she is professorial research fellow at the Victorian College of the Arts. [7]