For MA and PhD research I was looking at the invisibility of women in the archive; Jeanne Baret the first woman to circumnavigate the globe in the 1700’s who collected thousands of plant specimens now archived at Natural History Museum Paris and is absent from the archive, and marine biologist, Jeanne Villepreux Power who had connections with the Royal Society, her life’s work lost in a shipwreck.
Recent Posts
- How sad – the close of our Spring Show, Wednesday 29th May 2024
- Installation of new President
- Introducing new member Jayne Phidd
- Selection for Spring Show at Rose Paterson Gallery
- Guest Speaker Meeting. Wednesday 21st February 2024
- Spring Show, Rose Paterson Gallery, Weston Park
- Society News from President Keith Oram
- June Critique Night 21st June 2023 – led by WSA President Keith Oram
- Guest Speaker Night – 15th March 2023 – David McGuire – A Journey of Art Appreciation and Practice
- Guest Speaker Night – 15th February 2023 Critique Night with Wayne Attwood PRBSA