Rediscovering Art by Women

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We/Us and the Importance of Female Masculinity in Mainstream Spaces

By: Maudji

Interview with Photographic Artist Romy Alizée

By: Romy Alizée

Claude Cahun’s Sapphic Siren

By: Rachel Ashenden

Interview with Aurore Founder, Carly Pifer

By: Carly Pifer

Kati Horna: photographing the hidden, occult, and unseen layers of reality

By: Olivia Garro

Interview with Clare Freestone, Curator of ‘Yevonde: Life and Colour’, at the National Portrait Gallery

By: Clare Freestone

ZANELE MUHOLI at La MEP

By: Benjamin Carteret

Intergenerational Connectivity through Xerography in Body Poetics

By: Rachel Ashenden

Interview with RAW founder, Sacha Llewellyn on Surréalisme au Féminin & RAW Collection

By: Sacha Llewellyn

SURRÉALISME AU FÉMININ ?

By: Maudji

Interview with Vex Ashley on Four Chambers’ new feature film ‘Maman II’

By: Vex Ashley

Interview with Photographic Artist Maisie Cousins on Motherhood

By: Maisie Cousins

Artist Spotlight: Leonor Fini & Surrealist Eroticism

By: Lily McGonigal

Artist Spotlight: Cosey Fanni Tutti

By: Vex Ashley

Interview with Filmmaker and Director of ‘Grief Encounter’ Ellen Pearson

By: Ellen Pearson

Interview with Artist and Gallery Founder Sade English

By: Sade English

Action, Gesture, Paint: Women Artists and Global Abstraction 1940 to 1970 at Whitechapel Gallery

By: Maudji

Artist Spotlight: Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011)

By: Laetitia Guillotin

Interview with Tattoo Artist Loz

By: Loz

Artist Spotlight: Clare Leighton and the Fine Art of Mass Reproduction

By: Prof. Kristin Bluemel

‘Fluid Rego’

By: Alistair Hicks

Artist Spotlight: The Radical Nudes of Alice Neel

By: Anna Sampson

‘Alice Neel – An Engaged Eye’ at the Centre Pompidou, Paris

By: Maudji

Emmy Bridgwater: The Edge of Beyond

By: Ruth Millington

Interview with Jeweller Carly Owens

By: Carly Owens

An Interview with Artist Susanne Du Toit

By: Susanne Du Toit

In Visible; Interview with Esther Shalev-Gerz

By: Esther Shalev-Gerz

Marlene Dumas and Womanhood – A Few Paintings From Her Exhibition at the Palazzo Grassi in Venice

By: Sacha Llewellyn

Carolee Schneemann – Body Politics

By: Lydia Lane, Ruby Powers

Artist Spotlight: Where is Ana Mendieta?

By: Anna Sampson

Interview with Visual Artist Amelo Asensio

By: Amelo Asensio

Interview with Figurative Artist Heather Nevay

By: Heather Nevay

Artist Spotlight: How Ithell Colquhoun Has Chosen Her Moment

By: Amy Hale

Objects of Desire: Surrealism and Design 1924 – Today

By: Maudji

Laura Knight, Painting Women and Freedom of Choice

By: Ruth Guilding

Artist Spotlight: Rediscovering Laura Knight

By: Timothy Wilcox

“I really believe there are things which nobody would see unless I photographed them” – A Look Into the World of Diane Arbus (1923-1971)

By: Maudji

Protest, Participation and Solidarity; Headwear in the Work of Zanele Muholi

By: Sacha Llewellyn

Interview with Stylist and Costume Designer Danielle Goldman

By: Danielle Goldman

Interview With Photographic Artist Anna Sampson

By: Anna Sampson

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You will also be sent a free copy of Fifty Works by Fifty British Women Artists, 1900–1950 as a token of our gratitude…

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Have you read our interview with Clare Freestone on “Yevonde: Life and Colour” opening at @nationalportraitgallery next month?

🗣️ “Yevonde was by all accounts great fun, so essentially I’d like people to come to enjoy the show. The exhibition is a celebration Yevonde’s life and work… we want people to ask ‘why haven’t I heard of Yevonde before?’ As a re-evaluation of her work there have been numerous discoveries, a greater understanding of the circles in which she moved, her inspirations, how her work was disseminated and essentially how her photography and the messages are so relevant to us today…”

On the RAW + blog page now!

THIS WEEK IN RAW…we shine the light on four iconic photographers…

Thank you to @nationalportraitgallery, @benjamin.carteret @toujours.bizarre

Head to the RAW blog page now!

Swipe right to see who inspired Marion Adnams’ “Emperor Moths/Thunder On the Left” (1963) now in the RAW COLLECTION!

In her autobiography, Adnams wrote “In September, I went to Venice. It was wonderful being in Venice, but there was nothing to draw. Or rather, it had all been done already. Venice herself was the finished article and, as such, I could do little with her” but upon seeing René Magritte’s The Voice of Space (La Voix des airs, 1931) held in the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Venice, Adnams found herself inspired again: “In October, I painted the Emperor. Tho of these great moths cling to balls of blue glaze, floating in the sky above a landscape which was dark blue and purple with the threat of approaching storm”

#marionadnams #femalesurrealist #guggenheim #renemagritte #rawcollection #rediscoveringartbywomen #surrealistpainting #emperormoth #raw

A few ⭐️HIGHLIGHTS⭐️ by some of the women photographers in ´CHRONORAMA; Photographic Treasures of the 20th Century' - the brilliant new show at @palazzo_grassi - a journey through the 20th century through the @condenastarchive

⭐️ No magazines better documented and captured 20c high society than those owned by Condé Nast - which, over the decades, employed a number (albeit proportionately small) of women photographers.

⭐️ By 1920, Condé Nast was the leading international magazine publisher in the world, having launched British Vogue in 1916 and the French version four years later.

⭐️ Condé Nast's main readership was the world's elite in New York, Paris, and London who haunted the jazz clubs, the theaters, and the most prestigious parties and events.

⭐️ As well as documenting people, Condé Nast's magazines also reflected the most widespread trends in the arts and architecture throughout the century.

Swipe 👈🏽 for a few stand-out images:

1) Elisabetta Catalano - Helmut Berger (1970)
2) Ruth Harriet Louise - Greta Garbo, 1931
3) Berenice Abbott - James Joyce wearing an eye patch, 1926
4) Adelaide de Menil - Coco Chanel, Anouk Aimée and Marie Helene de Rothschild, 1966
5) Lisette Model - Family of Burlap Dolls, 1926

One week left to see « Body Poetics » at @giantartgallery in Bournemouth, a group exhibition pairing nine feminist artists at the advent of feminist theory in the 1970s & 1980s!

« In xerography, these artists found freedom in the process; without requiring the labour of a photographer, they created confrontational and strangely compelling self-portraits. Commenting on the immediacy of the medium, and the intimacy between artist and machine, Slinger revellaking these ‘true self-portrait[s]’. Xerographic photocopying was widely introduced to the office space in the 1960’s, unpredictably openinto Slinger and Chadwick. Gibbens’ work testifies that the medium of xerography as a means of distorting the physical body is far from obsolete. By looking beyond the exhibition space, to the work of Denise Zygadlo, who was a friend and model of Chadwick’s, it becomes apparent that photocopying bodies continues to compel an extraordinary cohort of feminist artists. While xerography is just one strand of thematic links to be forged between, across and beyond the artist pairs in Body Poetics, I feel that this particular medium, and this curatorial approach, is a hugely intriguing way to dismantle potential intergenerational personal and political disconnect…»

Head over to RAW now to read the brilliant blog by @rachel.ashenden, co-founder of @thedebutante_, freelance arts writer and independent researcher specialising in the feminist avant-garde, and in particular, in Penny Slinger.

#bodypoetics #rawblog #feministart #giantartgallery #rediscoveringartbywomen #femaleartists #marginalisedartists #modernart #artbywomen

I had such a magical ⭐️ evening talking on the panel to launch the brilliant exhibition of portraits of women writers by @susannedutoit2353 at @thelondonlibrary

It was a full house and the exhibition (swipe 👈🏼) looked stunning - it is on until July - and there is a beautiful catalogue published by @eiderdownbooks

Thank you to everyone - especially @hen_rodgers - for organizing the event 💓

#literaryfestival #womenportrait #womenwriters

👋 COME AND SAY HI! ⁠👋
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On Thursday, Sacha will be taking part in this ⭐️ super-special ⭐️ event to launch the @thelondonlibrary Lit Fest.

👀 View the exhibition of women writers by @susannedutoit2353 , have a drink 🥃 at the bar and then hear from Susanne's sitters (Sacha Llewellyn @rediscovering_art_by_women , Juliet Jacques and Dreda Say Mitchell) in conversation with fellow sitter @lara_feigel about artistic collaboration, what it is for a writer ✍️ to be the subject rather than the creator of a work of art and where writing and portraiture overlap. ⁠
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There is a gorgeous catalogue 📕 about the project published by @eiderdownbooks
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To purchase tickets 🎫 here is the link: https://www.londonlibrary.co.uk/whats-on/196-lit-fest-painting-women-writers-in-person-online?date=2023-04-27-18-30⁠
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#literaryfestival #portraits #artexhibition #womenartists #artbywomen #artistsoninstagram

“In the first of a new series Maudji Mendel explores the life, work and collectability of unsung female artists, starting with the pioneering photographer Madame Yevonde”

Thank you to @nationalportraitgallery & @antiquesmag for their help in putting this article together…

‘Life in Colour’ will open at the National Portrait Gallery in London on June 22nd!

Link in our story!

#madameyevonde #article #nationalportraitgallery #antiquecollectingmagazine #raw #rediscoveringartbywomen #rawblog #artbywomen #femalephotographer #yevonde #exhibition

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