Ever-so brilliant women on never giving up
In a week when I’ve been feeling quite despondent about how women are viewed, and how our success in the world is measured (prompted largely by the goings-on in parliament…), Booker...
In a week when I’ve been feeling quite despondent about how women are viewed, and how our success in the world is measured (prompted largely by the goings-on in parliament…), Booker...
At last we have a chance to see a major retrospective of the work of the interior architect and furniture designer Charlotte Perriand (1903 to 1999). A Parisian of modest background she joined the Ate...
Talk about coincidence. I was a guest on Woman’s Hour last week (promise not to mention it many more times), and while I waited for my section I listened to Chila Kumari Burman talking about her...
Though often mistaken for watercolour paintings, Molesworth & Bird’s designs are actually made from pressed, foraged seaweed found washed up in rock pools on the south west coast. Old...
According to the Financial Times, ‘ 2020 promises a revolution for women in art.’ Hooray.
Kiki Smith is a New York-based artist whose oeuvre moves from photographs, to drawings, to printmaking to small sculptures and most impressively since 2012 to large scale tapestries. If you want to se...
Here’s a true story with a happy outcome. The artist, activist and children’s author Faith Ringgold is having a solo retrospective at the Serpentine Gallery, her first in Europe.
The fact that female artists are undervalued and underrepresented in the art world is no new phenomenon, but thankfully the situation is finally changing. Two of the most popular exhibitions la...
I’m due a trip up north and hoping that there’ll be time to cross the Pennines and visit friends in Wakefield. As well as a walk in the glorious Yorkshire Sculpture Park, world-reno...
The curators at Tate Modern are to be congratulated for another exhibition in the main temporary gallery space dedicated to a gifted female artist. For the past decade or so the work of Louise ...
Claire Brewster’s artwork is influenced by the British countryside and nature, ‘ I’m endlessly fascinated by nature,’ says the 50-and-a-half-year-old, ‘where we humans ne...
Under the Director of Tate, Maria Balshaw and the Director of Tate Modern, Frances Morris, more prominence is being given to female artists. First Sonia Delaunay and now Anni Albers, both texti...