Performance artist, works Melbourne.
In Memorium , a writing/ publication project by Linda Sproul 3 March 1994, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Fitzroy, Melbourne, was made up of 132 stanzas of varying length, a tribute to Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s In Memorium sequence of elegies for Arthur Henry Halllam of 132 stanzas of varying length, written between 1833 and 1850. The first 26 sections of Sproul’s poem, entitled all the little deaths that make a life. Petite [sic] morts ,was published in 1994 (with a note that the project will be completed by 2010).
Her White Woman project included 'Model Behaviour – The White Woman Variation #4, The Drawing Class’ at the NPG on 25 March 2000, part of the Canberra Contemporary Art Space Performance Season. In it she posed naked in various attitudes inspired by famous paintings (reproductions were on an easel beside her) while professional and amateur artists (including Andrew Sayers, Director, National Portrait Gallery) rapidly sketched her in charcoal on paper on easels around the room in a salon style exercise.
This entry is a stub. You can help DAAO by submitting a biography.
- Writers:
- Staff Writer
- Date written:
- 1999
- Last updated:
- 2011
