Margaret Watkins – Black Light is showing at Sala Vimcorsa in Córdoba, Spain from March 22 – May 25, 2025.
Margaret Watkins (1884–1969) was a Canadian photographer who is remembered for her innovative contributions to advertising photography. In 1928 she left for Glasgow to visit her mother’s sisters and never returned to North America. She lived a life of rebellion, rejection of tradition, and individual heroism; she never married, she was a successful career woman in a time when women stayed at home, and she exhibited eroticism and feminism in her art and writing.
Margaret Watkins was a photographer of portraits and landscapes, still lifes, street scenes and works of early advertising and commercial designs. In the 1920s she was at the height of her career, living in New York City, winning prizes in international exhibitions and teaching at the renowned Clarence H. White School of Photography.
Follow the LINK HERE for a talk with the curator of Margaret Watkins – Black Light, Anne Morin (diChroma Photography, Madrid) and Joe Mulholland (Hidden Lane Gallery, Glasgow) who has championed the Margaret Watkins archive since discovering it in 1986.
Prior to her death in 1969 she gave a present to her neighbour, gallery proprietor Joe Mulholland, a large box wrapped in brown paper, tied and sealed with wax, but with one condition: he was not to open it until after her death. In her years as a recluse in Glasgow, she never once mentioned photography, the field in which she had excelled.
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