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Event – Nordic Art History at London Art Week
This two-part roundtable series curated by Isabelle Gapp coincides with the exhibition Anna Boberg (1864-1935), Painting the Arctic Summer at Ben Elwes Fine Art and the publication of her recent volume, A Circumpolar Landscape, Art and Environment in Scandinavia and North America, 1890-1930 (Lund Humphries, 2024) These are ticketed events; limited availability. Nordic Art History Roundtables: New Directions in Nordic Art History…
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New Publication – A Circumpolar Landscape
Published by Lund Humphries in April 2024, as part of the “Northern Lights” series. Available now in the UK & Europe, forthcoming July 2024 in US/Canada. A Circumpolar Landscape demonstrates that Canadian and Scandinavian landscape painting reaches far beyond national identity and a preoccupation with Eurocentrism. This study brings together the work of Emily Carr,…
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Grant Success – From the Floe Edge
Excited to share that we have received British Academy funding for our collaborative project on coastal sea ice, where I’ll be working with glaciologist Sarah Cooley (University of Oregon) and the West Baffin Co-operative in Kinngait, Nunavut. Partnering with Canada’s oldest Indigenous owned and Inuit led arts organisation, the West Baffin Cooperative, over the next…
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New QUADRAT PhD Opportunity: Frozen Fieldwork
QUADRAT DTP: Frozen fieldwork: an archival analysis of Danish expeditions to the Greenland Ice Sheet in the 19th century Fully funded, 42-month PhD project is part of the QUADRAT Doctoral Training Partnership. Open to UK and international applicants. Supervisors: Dr Isabelle Gapp (Univ. of Aberdeen) & Dr Donal Mullan (Queen’s Univ. Belfast)Location: University of Aberdeen,…
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Conference – Nordic Nature: Art, Ecology, Landscape
Dates: 16-18th June, 2022 Time: 8.45-18.00CETVenue: KODE Art Museums & Composer Homes/University Museum of Bergen Organisers: Dr. Isabelle Gapp, Dr. Tonje Haugland-Sørensen, MaryClaire PappasVirtual & In-Person. Free to Attend. Keynote speaker: Dr. Gry Hedin, ARKEN Museum of Modern Art This three-day conference at KODE Art Museums and Composer Homes/University of Bergen looks to foreground new…
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New Publication – Water in the Wilderness: The Group of Seven and the Coastal Identity of Lake Superior
A very brief excerpt from my paper, “Water in the Wilderness: The Group of Seven and the Coastal Identity of Lake Superior,” Journal of Canadian Studies 55, no.3 (2021): 590-620. DOI: 10.3138/jcs-2020-0049: “Wilderness is often regarded as a “northern” experience. It suggests rugged hinterlands, going off the beaten track, and being removed from civilization. It…
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New Publication – A Woman in the Far North: Anna Boberg and the Norwegian Glacial Landscape
A short excerpt from my paper “A Woman in the Far North: Anna Boberg and the Norwegian Glacial Landscape” published in Kunst og Kultur (02/2021): “In a photograph of the Swedish painter Anna Boberg (1864–1935) she stands before a vast expanse of ice that is the Øksfjordjøkelen (or Øksfjord glacier), her easel in front of…
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Exhibition Talk – The Myth of Wilderness and Ecology of Lake Superior’s North Shore
I was delighted to give a talk for the SCHIRN Kunsthalle Frankfurt impulse lecture series, as part of the programming surrounding their exhibition: Magnetic North. Imagining Canada in Painting 1910-1940. Here, I offer an alternative perspective on the commonly-adopted national and wilderness narratives surrounding the Canadian Group of Seven, and instead consider their coastal lake-scapes…
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New Publication – An Arctic Impressionism? Anna Boberg and the Lofoten Islands
A very short excerpt from my chapter in Mapping Impressionist Painting in Transnational Contexts (eds. Emily C. Burns and Alice M. Rudy Price, Routledge 2021), 90. “The dusty pinks and yellows of twilight descend below the mountains in Swedish painter Anna Boberg’s early twentieth-century painting Boat with Net, Study from Lofoten (Figure 7.1). As one…
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Workshop – The Circumpolar World, 1850-1940: From Scandinavia to North America
I finally get to put this date in my diary! It’s all coming together, and looks set to be a really exciting event. Both daunting and thrilling that all of these ideas are starting to manifest and come together. It will be a wonderful afternoon of scintillating conversation and discussion surrounding the art and culture…
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