Ian Desjardin, the Sackler Director of Dulwich Picture Gallery will be our guide to the first UK exhibition dedicated to Emily Carr - one of Canada’s most beloved and esteemed artists, virtually unknown outside Canada. The exhibition will trace a dramatic trajectory from darkness to light. Visitors will first encounter Carr’s brooding, often claustrophobic forest […]
This event is SOLD OUT. If you RSVP, you will be added to our waitlist. An occasion of might and pageantry, that is how most of us view opera. Directing such a spectacle demands strength and forcefulness, qualities, we, ashamedly and instinctively, associate more often with men. Robin Norton-Hale challenges our assumptions by exploring, with […]
Join us for a gallery led tour of the current solo exhibitions by two prominent artists, Sarah Sze at Victoria Miro and Katy Moran at Parasol Unit. British artist, Katy Moran’s gestural and highly evocative paintings may appear to be abstract, but the artist herself is invariably concerned with the figurative. For her, ideas arise […]
We still highly recommend that you visit the exhibition, but have had to cancel our tour of the Women’s Art Library and of Krinsky’s site-specific digital print installation. The archive, started in the late 1970's as an artist-led initiative to enhance public knowledge of the practice, impact and achievement of women in the visual […]
Save the Date to meet Samantha Roddick and discuss photography, Carlo Mollino and the sexual objectification of women and view her first artistic project, Hidden Within, at the Michael Hoppen Gallery. Best known as the original founder of the erotic boutique, Coco de Mer, Roddick has long been exploring our cultural relationship to sex. Roddick […]
An introduction to the work of the European doyenne of abstract art by art expert guide, Richard Thomas. This will be the first UK retrospective to assess the breadth of her vibrant artistic practice featuring the ground-breaking paintings, textiles and clothes she made across a sixty-year career. Read more about the exhibition here. Details: Meet at 9:15am […]
The Whitworth Gallery in Manchester is celebrating its glittering renovation and re-opening with a major solo exhibition by one of Britain’s most acclaimed contemporary artists Cornelia Parker. The extensive Exhibition features a wide range of the works made over Parker’s long career, including the famous Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View (1991) (pictured above). In […]
From Clara Schumann to Ethyl Smyth and Cathy Berberian, the last few centuries have witnessed an extraordinary array of talented women composers and performers. Whether curbing their ambitions to remain with the bounds of decorum, or publicly flouting the apparent “limitations” of their sex, these individuals created an enduring musical and cultural legacy, sometimes with […]
Please join us for a May day out in Oxford as an ideal way to take advantage of exclusive, expert guided tours of two of the Ashmolean’s current exhibitions. After a self-hosted lunch at the Ashmolean's roof-top dining room, we will start our visit at 13:00 with an exceptional chance to tour From Palace to […]
UK Friends have been offered an extraordinary chance to view two rarely publicly-seen portraits, one by a Renaissance artist and one by a Baroque artist. Weiss Gallery Director, Florence Evans, will illuminate these works. Sofonisba Anguissola (1532 – 1625) was born in Cremona, Lombardy. Her apprenticeship with local painters set a precedent for women at […]
Twenty years after the National Museum of Women in the Arts opened the exhibition At Centuries End: Norwegian Art and the Figurative Tradition in Washington D.C., the UK Friends of NMWA will host a special panel discussion and drinks reception during which we will return to the question: How well represented are women artists in […]
Relationships between the Contemporary and the Traditional A discussion of 4 women artists’ work by Ann Gollifer, and introduced by John Giblin, Head of the Africa Department, British Museum. We are excited to offer UK Friends of NMWA the opportunity to tour the Africa Department at the British Museum with Ann Gollifer, an artist whose work […]
Please join us for the next in our series of intimate lectures by renowned experts -- and our first to take place in the fabulous Club Café Royal. The dynamic and engaging author, Lucinda Hawksley, will share with us her insights into the under-appreciated pre-Raphaelite women (artists, muses and models). The evening will cover the […]
A rare opportunity to go behind the scenes in the V&A Clothworkers' Centre for the Study and Conservation of Textiles and Fashion, for a discussion of pre-eminent women designers through time. We will be led on our visit by Sonnet Stanfill, curator of 20th century and contemporary fashion at the V&A, and the centre manager, […]
Patrons will be invited to a visit to a stunning private collection which includes famous artists such as Louise Bourgeois, Mary Kelly, Sarah Lucas, Maria Lassnig, Yayoi Kusama, Chantal Joffe. Please email us if you have not received your invitation by 15 September.
We have organized a fantastic day out on Tuesday, 6 October beginning in the Member’s Room of Tate Britain at 10:00 with an hour-long talk by Tate art expert Richard Thomas on both Barbara Hepworth and Agnes Martin. After that we will view the Hepworth show, and then board the ferry for a self-paid quick […]
fig-2 and UK Friends of NMWA presents 'Resonant Voices in Contemporary Visual Culture', a talk by fig-2 curator Fatoş Üstek, with an introduction to her current project at fig-2 by artist Lynne Marsh. fig-2 is a revival of fig-1, which presented 50 exhibitions in 50 weeks. fig-1 was conceived and developed by Mark Francis and Jay Jopling […]
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Curator Mo Throp will lead us on a bespoke group tour, 2 December from 3-5 pm, at the Chelsea Art Centre (across from Tate Britain) of her special exhibition of mainly black and white photos from the Women's Art Library Magazine archive- rarely seen outside the Goldsmiths Special Collections Library. The photos and material are […]
Join us to discover the London connections to some unknown and unsung heroines of the arts. Women behind the scenes (literally) or those who were well known in their time will be re-introduced to us. We will "meet" designers and painters who brought magic to theatreland, a florist who mixed controversy with composition, dancers and […]