GWA Newsletter September '22 I

Artwork of the week: Flora Yukhnovich, Watch out boy she’ll chew you up, 2022 – on view at my exhibition at Victoria Miro (opening 8 Sept!)

Dearest Great Women Art Lovers,

Welcome back to a very exciting instalment of our Substack. I hope you are all well.

This Thursday, The Story of Art Without Men hits the shelves, so pick up your copy!

It has been selected as Book of the Month by the likes of Tate and Bookshop.org, and we have taken over two whole bookshelves in Hatchards Piccadilly as well as Waterstones Gower Street to highlight some of our favourite women artists.

The Story of Art Without Men has had some incredible write ups in The Times, The Sunday Times, Harper’s Bazaar and more. Here are a few of my favourite quotes:

“The Story of Art Without Men should be on the reading list of every A-level and university art history course and on the front table of every museum and gallery shop.” – The Times

“The Story of Art Without Men, which describes how women achieved artistic excellence against colossal odds, has firmly cracked open the canon.” - The Spectator

"I can’t wait to give this to my teenage daughter." – i news

Not only that, but on Thursday my exhibition The Story of Art as it’s Still Being Written opens at Victoria Miro Gallery featuring those in the fifth and final part of the book. It includes: Tracey Emin, Amy Sherald, Celia Paul, Sarah Sze, Zanele Muholi Flora Yukhnovich, Jadé Fadojutimi and many more.

Please join us on Thursday 6 September, 6–8:30pm at Victoria Miro Gallery for the exhibition opening and a book singing by me — you won’t want to miss it. The show continues until the 1st of October!

Love,
Katy xoxo

PS. Look out for these fly posters around London!

Here are your top 5s:

5 Shows in Britain

Africa Fashion at the V&A
Carolee Schneemann at the Barbican
Catherine Repko at Ordovas
Forest: Wake this Ground featuring Maria Nepomuceno at the Arnolfini
Georgia Gardner Gray at Sadie Coles HQ

5 Shows Overseas

Black Melancholia featuring Selma Burke, Augusta Savage, Lorna Simpson, Alberta Whittle and many more at CCS Bard Galleries at Bard College, Upstate New York
Kara Walker at the National Gallery Australia, Canberra
Louise Bourgeois at Gropius Bau, Berlin
Mandy El-Sayegh at the Biennale Matter of Art, Prague
Stettheimer Dollhouse: Up Close at the Museum of the City of New York, NYC

5 Artists Discovered

Charlotte March (German fashion photographer of the 60s and 70s who worked for magazines such as Elle, Vogue Italia, Vanity Fair and Harper’s Bazaar capturing the icons of the day we know so well like Twiggy in all her glamour)
Francesca Mollett (abstract painter working in London, whose soft washes of paint sometimes burn through like acid or appear solid like a wall)
Kazuko Miyamoto (working and living in New York since the 60s and known for her delicate minimalist sculptures, Miyamoto was an early member of feminist collective, A.I.R. Gallery)
Marie-Victoire Jaquotot (19th-century French porcelain painter who exhibited at the Salon and in 1816 was awarded the title premier peintre sur porcelaine du Roi (first porcelain painter of the King) which allowed her to open a workshop and teach up to thirty students — including women!)
Valerie Maynard (born Harlemite and lifelong educator, Maynard’s landmark series No Apartheid from the 80s and 90s expresses her unique ability to combine diverse printing techniques and create heavy-hitting printed images)

5 Things to Read

Interview with Mickalene Thomas by the Artsy editors
Portrait of an Unknown Lady, a novel by Maria Gainza
Sydney Harvey on Visiting MoMA While Black for Hyperallergic
Zanele Muholi on Photography as Social Practice for Frieze
Nancy Princenthal on Joan Semmel for Hyperallergic

5 Things to Watch

TED talk by Anicka Yi on Art that imagines new ways of living with machines
Video by the Guggenheim on The Afterlife of Eva Hesse’s Expanded Expansion
Jodie Comer’s one woman show Prima Facie in selected cinemas
Lina Iris Viktor on In The Black Fantastic at the Hayward
Vivien Zhang on Is painting still relevant? with K11 Konversations

5 Things to Do

9 September, 9:45am-6:30pm: Symposium on Carolee Schneemann: Body Politics at the Courtauld
14 September, 6-8pm: Inaugural opening of Grimm Gallery in London with Lucy Skaer
14 September, 6:30-8pm: Toast Workshop: Reimagining Waste with Isabel Fletcher at Somerset House
15 September, 7:45pm: Writers panel on writing in the Black Fantastic at the Southbank Centre
17-18 September: Queer Bloomsbury at Charleston Trust

XOXO