GWA Newsletter August '22 II
Dear Great Women Art Lovers,
It’s a pleasure to be writing to you from our new and exciting Substack!
A few updates on my end, we began the book tour for The Story of Art without Men in Glasgow and Edinburgh this weekend. The tour continues throughout September and October, so come and join us at a venue near you. Tour locations and dates are now up on my website and you can pre-order your copy here.
We published another edition of The great women’s art bulletin for the Guardian, discussing Gillian Wearing’s powerful series “Signs” (1992-93), and how it speaks to the current cost of living crisis.
For anyone wanting a head start on TSOAWM, you lucky Substackers (is that a thing?) get the first look with this special link to the first 30 minutes of my audiobook. Listen here and purchase the audiobook here.
Just a reminder, please join us on Thursday 8th September, 6–8.30pm at Victoria Miro, N1 7RW to celebrate the launch of The Story of Art without Men and the opening of an exhibition I am curating of the book’s final chapter, The Story of Art as it’s Still Being Written (8 September–1 October). Featuring Tracey Emin, Jadé Fadojutimi, Chantal Joffe, Julie Mehretu, and more.
There will be drinks on the terrace and a book signing by me. Everyone is welcome and no RSVP necessary.
As always, here are your top 5s (+ we’ve added a section called ‘Artwork of the Week’. Scroll down!).
Katy xoxo
PS. We’ve also joined TikTok – follow here!
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5 Shows in Britain
’Reframed: The Woman in the Window’ at Dulwich Picture Gallery
Lily van der Stokker at Camden Arts Centre
Ishiuchi Miyako at the Stills Centre for Photography in Edinburgh
ruby onyinyechi amanze at Goodman Gallery
Lindsey Mendick ‘Off With Her Head’ at Carl Freedman Gallery
5 Shows Overseas
‘Fugues in Color’ featuring Katharina Grosse and Megan Rooney at Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris
Martine Syms at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in Philadelphia
Wangechi Mutu at Storm King Art Centre in New Windsor, New York
Hilla & Bernd Becher at The MET in New York City
Barbara Kruger at Neue Naitonalgalerie in Berlin
5 Things to Do
26 Aug, 7pm: Garden Night: an evening of music at Camden Arts Centre
27 Aug, 10:15am: Tour of ’Surrealism Beyond Borders’ at Tate Modern
3-10 Sept: City & Guilds MA Degree Show at the School
4 Sept, 2pm: Launch of Black and Female by Tsitsi Dangarembga at the Royal Festival Hall
5 Sept, 6:30pm: Flora Yukhnovich at the Wallace Collection
5 Artists discovered this week
Alice Boyd — Scottish Pre-Raphaelite painter who collaborated on mural decorations on the walls and ceilings of Penkill Castle as well as stained-glass windows for the South Kensington (now V&A).
Natalia LL (1937-2022) — The late Natalia LL was a pioneer of Polish feminist art. LL photographed everyday actions from sleeping to eating or speaking to create her series Permanent Registration (1970-72) seeing art as intrinsic to the everyday rather than separate.
Sonia Gechtoff — The American Abstract Expressionist artist making a name for herself on the West Coast but upon moving to NYC in 1976, The New York Times described her as “one of the most gifted artists of her generation.”
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha — The experimental Korean American artist and author explored honestly her own family history of migration across East Asia to America. An inspiration to feminist and Asian American authors alike, two months after the publication of her avant-garde magnum opus, Dictee, Hak Kyung Cha was murdered at 31.
Emma Prempeh — A recent graduate of the RCA in London, Prempeh paints obscured memories that are rooted in deep, earthy tones which pour down the canvas.
5 Things to Listen to
‘Recalculating Art’ on the gender disparity of art sales at auction on BBC Radio 4
Tina Campt on ‘A Black Gaze’ for Princeton University’s African American Studies Podcast
Grace Campbell on Today in Focus for the Guardian
Ayo Akingbade on Whitechapel Gallery’s Hear, Now Podcast
Olivia Laing on Dialogues: The David Zwirner Podcast
5 Things to Read
This Artist Changed my Life: Paula Rego by Ruth Millington for Elephant
The World Catches Up With Dindga McCannon with words by Jillian Steinhauer for The New York Times
Lindsey Mendick with Hettie Judah in the Guardian
Zoë Hopkins’s review of ‘Woman at War’ a group show at Fridman Gallery in New York in collaboration with Voloshyn Gallery in Kyiv for Frieze
Women’s Work: From Feminine Arts to Feminist Art by Ferren Gipson
Artwork of the Week!
Anne Rothenstein, Smoking Bride 1, 2019-2020 – so good, right!
Keep on GWA’ing x x x x