Incursive Aesthetics Talk by Dr Rosie Ibbotson

Art historian, Dr Rosie Ibbotson of the University of Canterbury will be delivering a fascinating talk exploring Incursive aesthetics: Floral imaginaries, colonial visual cultures, and environmental violence. She looks at relationships between images and environmental change in later nineteenth-century Aotearoa New Zealand, linking the central vegetal themes of the Arts and Crafts Movement with broader settler preoccupations of modifying land, notions of ‘home’, and imperial anxiety.

Rosie Ibbotson is Senior Lecturer in Art History and Theory at Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha University of Canterbury. Her research, and the subject of her forthcoming book Picturing the Imperial Anthropocene, concerns the entanglements of visual representation and environmental violence, and focuses principally on the long nineteenth century.

This is the final day of Stoddart Cottage's popular Radical Botanical group exhibition of contemporary plant art, which can be viewed before and after Rosie's talk, along with some historic paintings by Margaret Stoddart: https://www.stoddartcottage.nz/radical-botanical

Booking via Eventbrite is encouraged to get an idea of numbers but not essential. Free/optional donation to Stoddart Cottage

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