George Charles Beresford - Virginia Woolf in 1902 - Restoration

In A Room of One’s Own (1929), Virginia Woolf wrote: ​

“If truth is not to be found on the shelves of the British Museum, where, I asked myself, picking up a notebook and a pencil, is truth?”

RAW’s mission is to achieve a more equal account by reinserting surpressed voices into the art historical narrative. Here is a selection of books and essays written by Sacha Llewellyn celebrating great women artists.

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My exhibitions and books have been widely reviewed in the press. Here is a selection.

The lost talent of Winifred Knights

Winifred Knights, Dulwich Picture Gallery: these exquisite, never been shown artworks are a revelation: review

Back in the frame: the extraordinary artists Britain forgot

How painter Winifred Knights became Britain’s ‘unknown genius’

Pre-juggernaut paradise: True to Life – British Realist Painting in the 1920s and 1930s review

Fifty female artists in the frame: Gallery holds exhibition devoted to works by women in the first half of the 20th century

Book on “re-established” artist Winifred Knights takes top art history prize

Winifred Knights: a woman who made an impression

A Slew of Shows Celebrates Surrealist Women

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In Focus: A view into the lives of our mothers and grandmothers through the eyes of fifty British women artists of the 20th century

Real Britannia: revelatory paintings at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art

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Curator Sacha Llewellyn explores the art of Winifred Knights, Katie Roiphe looks at writers dying and in the first of our commissioned columns from 2016 New Generation Thinkers – Sarah Jackson from Nottingham Trent University explores touch and frostbite.

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