Hi Katie 🙂 thank you so much for this and for all your truly amazing work. I’ve been gobbling up every thing you write and share on your podcast and Instagram, and now this is the icing on the already ambrosial cake . I am an artist in my sixties , and am still painting every day . I went to art school in the early eighties in the era of art history texts and tomes that featured not a single woman artist . Funny that , seeing as more than half of our year were women. I went on my own personal mission to expand my horizons . South Africa in the eighties was in the grip of apartheid , and that oppression and repression stifled every aspect of our society. Information was hard to come by . I found Judy Chicago , Frida Kahlo and Artemesia amongst others and devoured everything I could about them . So I celebrate you and your work with particular joy and gratitude. This age of information has many gifts for women of my generation. We can be true to ourselves at long last and relish the freedom that being older and hopefully wiser brings . Thank you for bringing all of these inspirational artists into the light . That is exactly where they belong ⭐️
Pippa Lea Pennington, near Cape Town , South Africa.
What a great idea to guide visitors towards work by women in art galleries through an audio guide. Like you, I automatically look for the women artists and always judge a gallery, or an exhibition, by the representation of women in it.
It's also great that you are writing regularly in the Guardian on women artists. I am hoping to raise the profile of women surrealists in this, the 100th anniversary year of the surrealist manifesto, by writing about the artists on my substack and publishing a novel about them.
Hi Katie 🙂 thank you so much for this and for all your truly amazing work. I’ve been gobbling up every thing you write and share on your podcast and Instagram, and now this is the icing on the already ambrosial cake . I am an artist in my sixties , and am still painting every day . I went to art school in the early eighties in the era of art history texts and tomes that featured not a single woman artist . Funny that , seeing as more than half of our year were women. I went on my own personal mission to expand my horizons . South Africa in the eighties was in the grip of apartheid , and that oppression and repression stifled every aspect of our society. Information was hard to come by . I found Judy Chicago , Frida Kahlo and Artemesia amongst others and devoured everything I could about them . So I celebrate you and your work with particular joy and gratitude. This age of information has many gifts for women of my generation. We can be true to ourselves at long last and relish the freedom that being older and hopefully wiser brings . Thank you for bringing all of these inspirational artists into the light . That is exactly where they belong ⭐️
Pippa Lea Pennington, near Cape Town , South Africa.
Will you do more podcasts? I love GWA
What a great idea to guide visitors towards work by women in art galleries through an audio guide. Like you, I automatically look for the women artists and always judge a gallery, or an exhibition, by the representation of women in it.
It's also great that you are writing regularly in the Guardian on women artists. I am hoping to raise the profile of women surrealists in this, the 100th anniversary year of the surrealist manifesto, by writing about the artists on my substack and publishing a novel about them.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
I loved reading this.
It's always a joy to discover new female artists through your newsletter. I can't wait to explore Jennie C. Jones further.
Now that I look. I've seen the piece Some Living American Artists. It was an excellent reminder to revisit.
Huge thanks for the reference to Mary Beth Edelson. I will read about her work. I think it will fit in nicely with my project.
Love seeing Artemisia Gentileschi and L. Fontana! Checking the names listed here... Thank you!