Rosetta Buckingham
Star of the the Buckingham Family entertainers troupe
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Maggie Briggs
New Zealand show-jumper
Catherine Foley
For most of the 15 years she resided in New Zealand Mrs W. H. Foley was a star. She introduced many people to dramatic productions and whenever she appeared settlers crowded into the little halls which passed for theatres to experience the much-publicised magic of her performances.
Sarah Lucas
Lucas seems to have gone from strength-to-strength following her acclaimed solo exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery in 2013 and her triumphant pavilion showing at the 2015 Venice Biennale.
Jane Whiteside
Tightrope dancer, gymnast, magician
Marina Abramović
Abramović, who has referred to herself as “the grandmother of Performance Art,” was part of the earliest experiments in performance art, and she is one of the few pioneers of that generation still creating new work.
Joan Jonas
Joan Jonas is a prolific artist, who has greatly influenced the generation of performance artists to follow. She developed her own particularly fluid language and style of working, and furthermore revolutionized the practice by incorporating video and single circuit video loops into her work.
Gina Pane
Gina Pane’s performances, which included aspects of physical suffering, were directly inspiring to Feminist and Performance artists such as Marina Abramovic, Catherine Opie, Valie Export, and Giuseppe Penone.
VALIE EXPORT
EXPORT was a pioneer of engagements with intermedia and this has been influential on subsequent generations of new media practitioners, particularly in relation to Feminism.
Laurie Anderson
Laurie Anderson’s career spans four decades and her contributions to the histories of performance art, experimental music, contemporary visual art and installation have received wide recognition.