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CLASS DESCRIPTION

Why were there so many women involved in the spirit photography and spirit mediumship movement?

Join guest lecturer Lucy Cade to explore the mysterious origins of spirit photography and mediumship, which rose to popularity across Britain and the US during the Industrial period of the mid to late 1800s.

Through archival photographs and written accounts, Lucy Cade will establish the context for the birth of spirit photography and spirit mediumship. We will also find out about techniques, such as double exposures and ectoplasmic collages, which were largely pioneered by female mediums and allowed them to blur the lines between art and mediumship, almost pushing it into the realms of performance art.

We will find out how the lack of political agency and suffrage propelled countless women towards mediumship as a creative outlet and how the women of this movement made a creative life for themselves outside of the arts academy. Well also zoom out to look into the ripple effects of spirit photography on the art world which inspired the works of visionary painters like Georgiana Houghton and Hilma af Klint.

This lecture will give us a unique angle through which to explore feminism, creativity, Surrealism and Abstraction, as well as touch upon Victorian ideas about death and legacy.

ABOUT OUR LECTURER

Lucy Cade is an artist and educator who is interested in the portrayal of the feminine and motherhood. She has shown extensively in the UK in the last few years including recent shows at Genesis Cinema (solo show ' View of the Screen' with Dark Yellow Dot) and The Exhibitionist Hotel (group show with Cynthia Corbett Gallery), as well as being shortlisted for the Wells Art Contemporary 2023 . She studied Classics and Art History for her first degree at Oxford University. Following the Turps Correspondence Course in 2021-22, she recently completed her Masters in Fine Art at City & Guilds of London Art School. She is also a fully qualified teacher who has taught Art and Art History in a variety of educational contexts, including schools, art centres and galleries. She has mentored other artist-mothers through the Spilt Milk Gallery Mentoring Programme.

Instagram: @lucycadeartist

Website: https://lucycade.wordpress.com/

UPCOMING SESSIONS WITH THE FEMINIST LECTURE PROGRAM

Monday 4th March
Kamin Mohammadi
Irans Ancient Feminist History

Monday 11th March
Ruth Charnock and Karen Schaller
Witching the Institution: Academia and Feminist Witchcraft

Monday 18th March
Lucy Cade
Female Creatives and Spirit Photography in the 19th Century

Monday 25th March
Dr. Sheree Mack
The Women of the Black British Art Movement

Monday 1st April
Nina-Sophia Miralles
Vogue Magazine: Invention, Erasure, Perversity & Power

Monday 8th April
Camilla Baier, Lauren Clarke and Rachel Pronger
The Animation of Mary Blair: A Feminists Guide to Disney

Monday 15th April
Lauren Peters
Fashion Before Plus-Size: Bodies, Bias, and the Birth of an Industry

Monday 22nd April
Ama Josephine Budge Johnstone
Intimate Ecologies: a Black feminist erotics for interspecies un/worlding

Monday 29th April
Joanna Ebenstein
The Anatomical Venus

Monday 6th May
Amina Nugumanova and Elmira Ismukhamedova
Women in Central Asian art: Preservation of Collective Heritage and Decolonisation

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RECORDING

A recording of the lecture will be sent out by The Feminist Lecture Program after the event finishes, within 2 hours of the end of the class. This email will also contain any resources/reading list the lecturer shares.

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Please note that the recording will expire 7 days after sending.

PAY WHAT YOU CAN

Everyone is welcome to join this Pay-What-You-Can class. We suggest a donation of 20, however, we understand that may not be possible for everybody. Please be honest and pay what you can afford so that we can continue to offer our sessions on a donation basis.

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