Join London Drawing Group's Luisa Maria MacCormack for a deep dive into the magical interspecies world of fungi.
In this talk, Luisa will guide us through a feminist history of our interspecies friendship with fungi, examining the history of foraging, cooking, growing, researching and even the life cycles of fungi themselves through a feminist lens. From the network of roots and fungi connecting trees beneath every forest known as the ‘wood wide web’, to a history of psychedelia, we will explore the ways that fungi intersect with human experience, and how that relates to feminist critical theory.
The session will also explore the histories of some incredible female scientists whose research has changed the scientific world of mycology forever.
Luisa-Maria MacCormack studied Textiles Design at London College of Fashion before tunring to Fine-Art and studying at the Royal Drawing School in 2014. She is currently studying for her MAFA at City and Guilds of London Art School.
A founding member of the London Drawing Group, Luisa teaches drawing in venues across London, as well as exhibiting regularly in solo and group shows. Luisa works across a range of media, including painting, drawing, sculpture and printmaking. Her work challenges and explores the difficult questions surrounding our gendered creative histories; re-authoring works from Art History created in a patriarchal system. Her paintings and drawings are often duplicitous, ambiguous and interested in forcing the viewer to question their own perception of the world around them. Luisa-Maria’s work explores issues of spirituality, supernatural and mythic traditions, sexuality, the body, belief and the evolution of ritual. Her interests are wide-ranging and encompass aspects of human history, science, religion and culture.
Luisa also heads up our Feminist Art History department and lectures in Art, Mythology and Comparative Religion from a feminist perspective
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