Tag: Women

Elaine Shemilt – interview

An artist and researcher, Elaine Shemilt is known for her pioneering work in feminist video in the 1970s. She talks about growing up during the Troubles in Northern Ireland, using her own body in her videos and why she sees…
It’s Terrible the Things I Have to Do to Be Me: On Femininity and Fame – book review

In a series of essays about pairs of famous women, the cultural critic Philippa Snow explores the connections between them and the distinction between person and persona
Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood

With works covering pregnancy, birth and nursing through to caring for older children, as well as miscarriage and involuntary childlessness, this show sets out to demonstrate that motherhood is a legitimate subject for contemporary art
A History of Women in 101 Objects: A Walk Through Female History – book review

A suffragette’s medal, a 16th-century dildo and a hatpin are just some of the fascinating items that Annabelle Hirsch uses to take us on a spin through female history
52 Artists: A Feminist Milestone

How has feminism changed in the past half century? This show revisits Lucy Lippard’s historic show and adds 26 new artists to the mix to create a carefully woven tapestry of conceptual crossovers and historical reverberations
Jordan Baseman on turning mastectomy tattoos into the subject of a cartoon – interview

Dealing with everything from embalming to post cancer surgery tattoos, Jordan Baseman’s films seek to explore difficult subjects with wit and honesty
Natacha Nisic – interview: ‘We needed a place for free expression, a visibility, a female presence’

The French artist and film-maker Natacha Nisic talks about The Crown Letter, the international participatory art project she launched in April, which offers a digital space for female artists from around the world
Chila Kumari Burman: ‘I scribble and make a mess in my studio. My whole studio is one big drawing’

Burman talks about the inspirations for her intricate, multilayered works, including her latest commissions for the Science Museum and an exhibition honouring suffragettes – and why she bought a tuk-tuk
Virtual Normality: Women Net Artists 2.0

This exhibition looks at how social media platforms and the digital manipulation of images are being used to reflect on the ideals of female bodies
Georgia Horgan: ‘Confident, working women were a threat to the social order’

Georgia Horgan talks about her recent exhibition, All Whores are Jacobites, and how she became intrigued by the lives of three women whose lives were linked by themes of prostitution, textile work and protest