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Women in Art
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BIG WOMEN “So much emphasis in our culture is on youth. When the media wants to arouse our sympathy it’s all about children. The fashion and advertising media concentrates on young female beauty. The older woman is often overlooked, irrelevant, […]
The Turner Prize 2022 has been awarded to Veronica Ryan it was announced this evening at a ceremony at St George’s Hall, Liverpool. The £25,000 prize was presented by musician Holly Johnson during a live broadcast on the BBC. A […]
Soheila Sokhanvari REBEL REBEL The Curve, Barbican Centre, London 7 October 2022 – 26 February 2023 Soheila Sokhanvari Soheila Sokhanvari‘s timely show celebrates feminist icons from pre-revolutionary Iran. Sokhanvari has her first first major UK commission, Rebel Rebel, in a site […]
Sign up for the private view, 6-9pm, Saturday 22 October 2022, RuptureXIBIT (+Studio) 55 High St, Hampton Wick, Kingston upon Thames KT1 4DG Tamar Payne’s mixed-media collages, silk-screen prints, photography, and paintings reframe contemporary landscape. About 46 Degrees North, the […]
To celebrate World Photography Day, here’s our three favourite artist Instagram feeds to follow: Lubaina Himid – Lubainapics Winner of the Turner Prize 2017, Himid’s work explores racial stereotyping and British colonial history. Cindy Sherman Check out American Sherman’s twisted selfies […]
Writing in the Guardian this week, Dr Helen Gorrill suggests the Tate Gallery doesn’t uphold gender equality in their acquisition policy. Gorrill argues that, despite Tate’s PR fanfare about acquiring work by female artists, the spend in the annual budget […]
Spotlight on… Pamela Colman Smith is probably the most famous illustrator you’ve never heard of. Colman Smith illustrated the first mass produced commercial set of Tarot cards, the Rider Waite Smith pack, most commonly known as the Rider Waite tarot, […]
A recently discovered, rare self-portrait by the most celebrated female artist of the Italian Baroque – Artemisia Gentileschi – has been acquired by the National Gallery, London.
Today WIA shines a spotlight on Cynthia Corbett. Gallerist, art dealer, founding member of the Association of Women Art Dealers (AWAD), and initiator of the Young Masters Art Prize. Corbett came to the art world via an unconventional route and continues […]
Azita Moradkhani was born in Tehran where she was exposed to Persian art and culture as well as Iranian politics. This double exposure increased her sensitivity to the dynamics of vulnerability and violence she explores in her work and art-making […]
It’s the exhibition that everyone I know has been excited about since it was announced last year (me included). The news that a sealed room containing Frida Kahlo’s wardrobe and personal artefacts, had been discovered and would be exhibited, seemed […]
Study day examines ways in which the position of women in British art education has changed since the first women were admitted to the Slade School of Fine Art on equal terms to men a hundred years ago, looking at issues of gender equality, work-life balance, professional development, networks of influence and values within higher education in British art.
Review by Laura Garmeson In 1944, war had been raging across Europe for several years. October of that year saw the publication of a Swedish-language political magazine called Garm, with its typically lively satirical covers. Illustrated with a cartoon Hitler […]
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