
Kiera Lindsey's "Wild Love: The Ambitions of Adelaide Ironside, the First Australian Artist to Astonish the World"
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In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, the historian Dr Kiera Lindsey chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about her choices while crafting Wild Love: The Ambitions of Adelaide Ironside, the First Australian Artist to Astonish the World.
Here’s what you’ll discover in this episode:
- Adelaide Eliza Scott Ironside was a trailblazing Australian artist known for her passion, ambition and extraordinary talent. Born in Sydney in 1831, she challenged artistic boundaries by exploring themes such as identity, sexuality and spirituality
- Why Kiera Lindsey challenged the traditional narrative of Australian art history
- Why Adelaide Ironside’s story is still so relevant today
- How Kiera painstakingly pieced together tiny scraps of evidence from 19th-century historical records in which women were mostly invisible
- How following in Adelaide’s footsteps in colonial Sydney, London, Rome, Florence and Scotland from 200 years ago contributed to the narrative
- The limits Kiera placed on her imagination when speculating to fill gaps in the fragmentary historical record
- How Kiera portrayed the cultural norms, societal values and prevailing ideologies in which Adelaide successfully pursued her artistic ambitions
- How Kiera interpreted Adelaide’s romantic mysticism, which appeared in her poetry and paintings
- The art and craft of speculative biography, as well as its relevance and impacts.
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