Drusilla Modjeska at Deep North Festival with Julie Rrap

When a woman makes art, what does she see? When she picks up her brush and looks in the mirror? When she takes off her clothes and paints herself naked?

Author Drusilla Modjeska is in conversation with contemporary artist Julie Rrap for her book A Woman’s Life, Her Art. Together they look back to the lives and art of European modernist women who recast the ways in which women’s bodies could be seen – from the self-portraits of Paula Modersohn-Becker, to the Surrealist Claude Cahun who exposed the masquerades of femininity, to the radical nudes of photo-artists Lee Miller and Dora Maar.

This event is part of the Deep North Festival held with Bookoccino at Avalon.