Tag: Women Artists

  • Fruit of Friendship: Portraits by Mary Beale

    A prolific portrait painter from the 17th century, Beale left a far-reaching legacy and espoused a progressive partnership of equality with her husband, which enabled her to become one of Britain’s first professional female artists

  • Action, Gesture, Paint: Women Artists and Global Abstraction, 1940-70

    This thrilling exhibition brings us work, much of it never seen before in the UK, from a largely forgotten generation of female artists working in gestural abstraction

  • Challenging Convention

    This exceptionally well-curated exhibition brings together four female artists, from a pivotal point in British social and art history, and explores how each, in her own way, challenged conventions and restrictions to become a successful painter

  • Tamsyn Challenger: Free the Pussy!

    The artist-curator Tamsyn Challenger talks about Free the Pussy!, the exhibition she has curated to showcase works made in response to Pussy Riot’s arrest in 2012, and the more general need for women to speak out, take control and reclaim…

  • 31 Women

    Drawing on Peggy Guggenheim’s 1943 exhibition of the same name, 31 Women is a thoroughly relevant and equally captivating and surprising contemporary curation, opening dialogues across time and space

  • Terrains of the Body: Photography from the National Museum of Women in the Arts

    Building on the legacy of feminist art from the 1970s, this exhibition includes photographic and video works by 17 contemporary artists from five continents, from the 80s to today, presenting woman as creator and subject of her work

  • Georgia O’Keeffe

    Tainted by the myth of erotic undertones, O’Keeffe’s work is shown by this long overdue retrospective to be far broader and more brilliant than is widely known. But it still doesn’t entirely do her justice

  • The Body as Language: Women and Performance

    This historically salient show, examining the birth and development of performance art in relation to gender, the body, language and the expression of the self, marks the 40th anniversary of a seminal book on the subject by Lea Vergine

  • Mirror, mirror

    No single model of self-portraiture can stand for the experiences of women generally, or fully express the rich interplay that exists between the examination of the reflected image and the exploration of the social dimensions of lived experience, but self-representation…