Anne Marsh is an Australian feminist art theorist. she is a professorial research fellow at the Victorian College of the Arts.
Career Originally trained as a sculptor in the 1970s, Marsh first was involved with sculpture performances, often identifying with the emerging feminist art movement in Australia. She was a member of the Women's Art Movement, and was amongst the group of women artists who contributed to Lip magazine. 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, 1969–1992Anne Marsh. Body and Self: Performance Art in Australia, 1969–1992, Oxford University Press,1993. 262 pages, and photography and modernism from the nineteenth century onwards – The Darkroom: Photography and the Theatre of DesireAnne Marsh. The Darkroom: Photography and the Theatre of Desire (Macmillan Education, 2003), 287 pages,
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.
In 2017, she did a three-month residency at the Norma Redpath House and Studios.
, she is professorial research fellow at the Victorian College of the Arts.
Works Body and self : performance art in Australia 1969–92 (1993) Oxford University Press The Darkroom : photography and the theatre of desire (2003) Macmillan Pat Brassington: This is Not a Photograph, (2006) Quintus an imprint of the University of Tasmania Look! Contemporary Australian Photography (2010) Macmillan Performance, Ritual, Document (2014) Macmillan Doing feminism : women's art and feminist criticism in Australia (2021) The Miegunyah Press
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