‘A Short Time Before Her Death’

Lindsey, K

‘A Short Time Before Her Death’

Lindsey, K

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Publisher:: University of Groningen Press
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: European Journal of Life Writing, 2020, 9
Issue Date:: 2020

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dc.contributor.author	Lindsey, K https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7754-9662
dc.date.accessioned	2020-07-07T04:36:09Z
dc.date.available	2020-07-07T04:36:09Z
dc.date.issued	2020
dc.identifier.citation	European Journal of Life Writing, 2020, 9
dc.identifier.issn	2211-243X
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/141736
dc.description.abstract	<jats:p>This Creative Matters piece is inspired by five objects in the archives of the colonial artist, Adelaide Ironside (1831–1867), which relate to her dying and death. In addition to two letters, one of which was the last Adelaide wrote before she died; the other by her mother shortly afterwards, I have drawn inspiration from the trunk the Ironsides took with them to Europe and which returned to Australia after their deaths and remains in the possession of her descendants. I have also referred to an obituary that was published the Athenaeum and a lost artwork by Ironside entitled ‘The Pilgrim of Art’, which depicts mother and daughter. The central focus of this work is, however, the only confirmed photograph we have of Adelaide Ironside, which was taken, a note in her archive suggests, ‘a short time before her death’. In this creative piece, I experiment with how such archival objects can be used to speculate and evoke the final moments of a biographical subject’s life in historical narrative.</jats:p>
dc.language	en
dc.publisher	University of Groningen Press
dc.relation.ispartof	European Journal of Life Writing
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.21827/ejlw.9.36933
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.title	‘A Short Time Before Her Death’
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	9
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences/Social and Political Sciences Program
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
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dc.date.updated	2020-07-07T04:36:05Z
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Abstract:

This Creative Matters piece is inspired by five objects in the archives of the colonial artist, Adelaide Ironside (1831–1867), which relate to her dying and death. In addition to two letters, one of which was the last Adelaide wrote before she died; the other by her mother shortly afterwards, I have drawn inspiration from the trunk the Ironsides took with them to Europe and which returned to Australia after their deaths and remains in the possession of her descendants. I have also referred to an obituary that was published the Athenaeum and a lost artwork by Ironside entitled ‘The Pilgrim of Art’, which depicts mother and daughter. The central focus of this work is, however, the only confirmed photograph we have of Adelaide Ironside, which was taken, a note in her archive suggests, ‘a short time before her death’. In this creative piece, I experiment with how such archival objects can be used to speculate and evoke the final moments of a biographical subject’s life in historical narrative.

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