Posts Tagged ‘women’s art’
Feminist Jugs
Feminist Jugs – Sink the Sex Trade! Feminist Jugs I love this picture of the my two new sgraffito ware jugs, photographed together, leading the fleet. Paired up like this seems to inject energy – they could almost be sailing. I’m particularly delighted with the way the handles look. They’re in the shop now. Go…
Read MoreVice & Virtue
Vice and Virtue Introduction Vice and Virtue is the first exhibition I have curated. I am grateful to Ruup & Form for hosting and supporting this new departure which runs from June 20th – July 26th, 2024. The six artists I selected have responded to my proposal that contemporary social justice movements are becoming increasingly…
Read MoreBerthe Morisot Exhibition
Berthe Morisot Exhibition Berthe Morisot: An Exhibition of her Paintings About the Artist The Dulwich Picture Gallery has staged a small exhibition of Berthe Morisot’s work focused exclusively on her paintings. Morisot came from a well to do family and was properly trained as an artist so she was able to pursue a career to…
Read MoreMrs Magnitude’s Emporium
Mrs Magnitude’s Emporium Introducing the Artist, Kay Leseeleur Ara I got back yesterday from two wonderful days in Jersey viewing @kay_leseelleur exhibition at @arthousejersey This is Kay’s first ever solo exhibition – she’s 82 so it’s been a long time coming – and she has not only taken the island by storm, she’s put Jersey…
Read MoreFeminist Satire, No Safe Spaces – Part 3
Feminist Satire, No Safe Spaces – Part 3 Gender – Introduction The featured pot, Cirucs Acts, is one of 23 pots which, along with 2 huge drawings, and 3 videos are on show at Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, one of Poland’s most prestigious galleries. This my first ever solo show outside the UK. The…
Read MoreRemembering Atefeh – Museum Acquisition
‘Remembering Atefeh,’ 2013, easily my most photographed and probably mostly widely shown pot, has been acquired by the Women’s Art Collection at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge. This is biggest collection of art by women in Europe and one of the major collections of feminist art. It was started in the early 1990s and has slowly…
Read MoreA Woman’s Right to Choose
Earlier this week, the Supreme Court of the United States, (SCOTUS,) launch the most ferocious attack on women’s reproductive rights in the US for decades. Or that is how it seems anyway. There has been a provisional vote. The overturning of Roe vs Wade, which enshrines in law the rights of women in the US…
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