GWA Newsletter December '22 I

Artwork of the week: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Harp-Strum, 2016

Dear Great Women Art Lovers,

I hope you are all very well.

I am so delighted to announce that yesterday The Story of Art without Men was awarded Waterstones Book of the Year! I could not be more grateful to Waterstones and all their fantastic booksellers for being the most brilliant champions of the book. We appeared on Radio 4’s Today Programme, BBC News, and in the Guardian. What a testament to all those people who fought for their place in history!

We also very excitingly released another episode of The Great Women Artists Podcast with art critic Jerry Saltz discussing the likes of Gillian Wearing, Tracey Emin, and Kara Walker. Listen here.

The Great Women Artists Residency at Palazzo Monti is back for its fourth year! This year features the brilliant Christina Kimeze, Lydia Blakeley and Eliza Hopewell. For anyone in the Northern Italian region, please join us tomorrow Saturday 3 December, 6-9pm for the residency exhibition in Brescia.

As a reminder, on Thursday 8 December, 6-8pm I’ll be signing more copies (including this very exciting SPECIAL EDITION) at Waterstones Piccadilly for their Christmas event. Joining me will be Dolly Alderton, Nick Grimshaw, Tom Daley, and more, so come along.

Lots of love,
Katy xoxo

5 Shows in Britain

Ayo Akingbade at Chisenhale
Buffer featuring featuring Caroline Jackson, Sophie Lourdes Knight, Emily Kraus, Emma Stone-Johnson and many others at Guts
Helen Saunders at the Courtauld
Linder at Charleston
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye at Tate Britain

5 Shows Overseas

Meret Oppenheim at MoMA, New York
Joan Mitchell at Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris
Gabriella Boyd at Grimm, New York
Zoe Leonard at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, Paris
Black Abstractionists: From Then ‘til Now featuring Alma Thomas, Virginia Jaramillo, Julie Mehretu, Howardena Pindell, Rachel Jones, Jadé Fadojutimi, Michaela Yearwood-Dan any many more at the Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, Texas

5 Artists Discovered

Hannah Lim - Hannah Lim’s vessels, tables and standing ornaments appear like ancient decoration despite being rendered in punchy millennial pastel tones and cut in acrylic with hyper-precision. Lim, currently has an exhibition at Huxley Parlour in London.
Jiab Prachukul - Born in Thailand, self-taught Jiab Prachukul came to painting after finding inspiration from David Hockney’s 2006 exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London. 14 years later she had her first solo show and in the same year her brushy portraits of friends won the prestigious BP Portrait Award from the same museum she saw Hockney’s work in 14 years earlier. They are a feast for the eyes, conveying in detail the individual personality of each of her subjects.
Mia Middleton - Mia Middleton paints intricate studies of textiles, animals and cropped aspects of people, all imbued with a spiritual significance that feels like an intimate understanding between the viewer and the artist. Based in Australia Middleton has a current exhibition at PM/AM gallery in London.
Sofia Berakha - In Sofia Berakha’s paintings the difference between cityscape and abstract brushstrokes blur into one. Berakha looks at the unusual subject of parent and child in the city, often focusing on a push chair. Berakha’s paintings pose a 21st century twist to the age-old imaging of Madonna and Child.
Zohra Opoku - Zohra Opoku often creates photographic self-portraits, exploring her multifaceted identity as both German and Ghanian. Working in Accra, Opoku prints her photographs onto locally found textiles and collages on top to embed herself into the fabric of the cultures she investigates.

5 Things to Read

Art is Life by Jerry Saltz
What Writers Read by Pandora Sykes
Luchita Hurtado in conversation with Andrea Bowers for Ursula
The 2022 Venice Biennale breaks all attendance records in its 127 year history, as reported by Hyperallergic
Camilla Bacon on Just Above Midtown and the Black Avant-Garde for Frieze

5 Things to Watch

Adriana Varejão on a selection of films for Gagosian
Hilma, a film about the life of Hilma af Klint
Lee Mingwei for Tate
Mickalene Thomas and Carrie Mae Weems in conversation at The Brooklyn Museum
Sonia Boyce: Finding Her voice for BBC One’s imagine…

5 Things to do in London

6 December, 6pm: Book launch for Marina Warner's book Helen Chadwick: The Oval Court, and a conversation with Louisa Buck at Richard Saltoun
6 December, 6:30pm: Conversation with Celia Paul, Bella Freud and Virginia Verran on Lucian Freud and Bruce Bernard at Gagosian
8 December, 6:30pm: Film screening of Filmfarsi with a conversation between Soheila Sokhanvari and Ehsan Khoshbakht at the Barbican
10 December, 3pm: Sarah Hamed on Kamala Ibrahim Ishag at the Serpentine
11 December, 5pm: Alberta Whittle and Lydia Yee in conversation at the Whitechapel

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