From Venus to Cleopatra: Petrina Hicks' Women

Hosted by Dr Maria Quirk, Assistant Curator for Collections and Acquisitions, NGV, From Venus To Cleopatra: Petrina Hicks’ Women discusses issues of gender and representation through the work of contemporary photographer Petrina Hicks. Join the discussion to learn how Petrina interrogates visual representations of women throughout art history and mythology in her photographs then view the works in her current solo exhibition Petrina Hicks: Bleached Gothic.

Speaker

Dr Maria Quirk is the Assistant Curator for Collections and Acquisitions at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV). A historian of women’s and art history, she has previously held academic positions at the University of Queensland and Deakin University, and is a former State Library of Queensland research fellow. Quirk’s research has previously appeared in Woman’s Art Journal, The Journal of Victorian Culture and Visual Culture in Britain. Her first monograph, Women, Art and Money in Late Victorian and Edwardian England: The Hustle and the Scramble was published by Bloomsbury in 2019.