Bern Emmerichs

New and News

2023

painted ceramic (fired)

30.00 x 60.00 cm

North East West South... News and events from all directions.

Featured is Louise Seguin, she was the first European woman to travel to the Antarctic region. Beginning at the age of 14, she disguised herself as a boy in order to travel on the 1772-1773 voyage of Captain Yves Joseph de Kerguelen, on the Roland Ship. It has been suggested that Louise and Yves were lovers. Eventually it was discovered that Louise was a woman and this is said to have contributed to de Kerguelen's 1776 court martial.