Join The Feminist Lecture Program for a lecture celebrating the life and works of Artemisia Gentileschi!

Artemisia. The woman who reinvented the Baroque, student of Caravaggio? Rape Survivor, Mother, Paintress to Kings and Queens, inspiration to seemingly all who know her work and story. Subject of plays, operas, one-woman blockbuster shows at the National Gallery London. Icon of the modern feminist movement.

This session, led by our very own Artemisia aficionado Luisa-Maria MacCormack, will immerse you in the turbulent story of one of the world's greatest female painters, arguably the world’s first woman to use art as a medium of resistance in her own personal and professional battles, living in a time when women’s rights did not yet exist.

This session will allow you to live and breathe her works, explore her inspiration and subject matter, analyse her paintings and - most curiously of all, explore the reasons behind her recent eruption into the contemporary art world. Luisa will be referencing her own series; FINDING ARTEMISIA, that was inspired by Artemisia's work, as well as the work of many other contemporary artists who have drawn on Artemisia as inspiration.

Luisa-Maria MacCormack is a practicing artist, art history tutor, drawing tutor and feminist educator currently working in London. Luisa studied for her Foundation Degree at Chelsea College of Art and for her BA at London College of Fashion specialising in Surface Textiles for Fashion Design. She then went on to study with the Royal Drawing School and completed her MA in Fine Art at City and Guilds of London Art School in 2021. Luisa is one of the founders of London Drawing Group, and the director of The Feminist Lecture Program.

You can follow more of Luisa's work on Instagram at @luisamariamfineart or visit her website at http://www.luisamariamaccormack.co.uk/

This is a recording of a live session hosted by The Feminist Lecture Program in June 2020. The reading list for the class can be found alongside this rental.

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