Lizzie Philps and Anna Haydock-Wilson in converstation We have been researching at the Women’s Art…
‘I would like to nominate Rose Frain, a wonderfully fierce artist and feminist who has…
‘I am a Chilean artist and psychologist. I research, both theoretical and pictorial, the image of the female body grounded in my cultural context.
Melanie Bonajo’s (b. 1978) artistic practice is shaped by her critical stance towards the state of our world.
I first came across Jo Spence in the 1980’s when I was about to graduate…
My walking practice aims to challenge the ‘natural’ landscape as mother. I get a bit…
This artist’s herstory was introduced by filmmaker Emma Windsor who is inspired by Cegavske’s exploration of ‘love, death and everything beautiful and terrifying about the natural world’.
Rosy Wilson has decades of experience of working in education with women of all ages and backgrounds. She always said she would retire an write poetry and with the support of a small group of women poets she has written and published several books and anthologies and led a collaboration which produced a film.
There’s a temptation to aspire to be ‘one of the lads’ and hope that no-one will notice that we are female and will judge our work on it’s own merit. But the art world is dominated by men at a high level and programmers and curators might say ‘we’ve got one of those this season’ which they might not say about ‘straight, white, middle-class men’. If we accept that challenges exist, we can start working with other women towards equality.
