Our Events

Please join us for this visit to a private collection in Kensington.  Details will be sent by separate email to Patrons.

An amazing opportunity to be led by Chief Curator Stephanie Rosenthal through the two retrospectives at the Hayward Gallery, charting the work of performance artist Ana Mendieta who died in 1985 and that of the Indian artist Dayanita Singh. Ana Mendieta was a Cuban artist whose tragic death at the age of 36, for a […]

For our friends visiting London during Frieze Week, we are proud to highlight a HOST of major exhibitions featuring women artists that can't be missed!  (See many more UK exhibitions featuring women on Our Picks...) Ana Mendieta at Hayward Gallery Dayanita Singh at Hayward Gallery Ayse Erkmen - Curve, Barbican Kara Walker at Campden Arts […]

4 November, 6:30-8:30 pm 6:30pm - exhibition viewing and refreshments 7:00pm - introduction to the exhibition by the curators followed by the conversation The Lloyds Club,  42 Crutched Friars, EC3N 2AP.  Nearest tube: Tower Hill Sacha Craddock, art critic, writer, curator, and featured collector in 2Q13:  Women Collectors, Women Artists will lead a lively evening […]

Image from our panel discussion: Women Collectors held 7 October 2013 with Iwona Blazwick, Cathy Wills, Valeria Napoleone and Sarah Elson in affiliation with 2Q13: Women Collectors, Women Artists at Lloyds Club Audience at Women Collectors: Panel Discussion held 7 October

If you are in the West End with some extra time on your hands, why don't you explore these women artists showing now: Isabella Blow at Somerset House Ann Christopher RA showing at Pangolin Anna Barriball at Frith Street Patricia Swannell at jaggedart Suzanne Treister at Annely Juda Lalla Essaydi at Kashya Hildebrand Stephanie Quayle […]

Come and explore the recent exquisite re-hang at Tate Britain through the lens of historically influential women artists.  Resurrected from the stores and hung in awe with the masterful influence they had on the arc of artists to follow. We will walk through time and our guide, Kate Tiernan, will informally illuminate works with discussion […]

Join us for a curator-led tour to the Whitechapel Gallery to see German Dada artist, Hannah Höch.  Our guide will be Daniel F. Herrmann, Eisler Curator & Head of Curatorial Studies at Whitechapel and curator for the exhibition. Hannah Höch Für ein Fest gemacht (Made for a Party) 1936, collage, 36 x 19.8 cm, collection […]

Sarah Elson, UK Friends of NMWA Trustee and Patron, is opening her home for one week in the launch of a series of private art commissions. For the pilot project, Elson has invited Berlin-based artist Suse Weber who will have free rein in part of Elson’s home and create a performative time-based piece that responds […]

Curator Claire Longworth will lead us through the newly opened exhibition of Men in Pants which displays Evelyn De Morgan’s skilful and creative male life drawings from her time at the Slade School of Art.   She was one of the first 3 women to enrol in 1873.   The Slade was the first art school in […]

An extraordinary opportunity for a private, curator-led tour of one of London’s hottest exhibitions: Isabella Blow: Fashion Galore at Somerset House – celebrating the extraordinary life and wardrobe of the late British patron of fashion and art. Born into British aristocracy, Blow’s influential career in fashion spanned thirty years, beginning as Anna Wintour’s assistant at […]

Please join us for our first Salon Series featuring experts speaking about historical women artists. We are honoured to announce that Frances Borzello, art historian, author and lecturer, will speak to UK Friends of NMWA on women artists' self-portraits through time, and help us to interpret and decode the messages being sent to the viewer. […]

An evening visit to view Valeria Napoleone's Private Collection on the 20 March 2014. This is an evening visit organised for Patrons only. If you are a Patron and you have not yet received your invitation, please email the UK Friends of NMWA at RSVP@UKFriendsofNMWA.org

Anthea Hamilton. The 23rd of August (2007), mixed media, 192 x 245 x 170cm. Galerie Fons Welters. Photo credit: Gert Jan van Rooij. This is a rare opportunity to visit Three Women Artists in their studios to see their work in progress and hear their unique perspectives. We are delighted that the artists Anthea Hamilton, […]

Andrew the first, 2013, Collage on Arches HP Watercolour Paper, 45.7 x 61cm We have had to cancel this wonderful event due to Tube strike disruption.  All UK Friends of NMWA are warmly invited to the opening at Purdy Hicks Gallery on 1 May from 6-8pm.  

Self Portrait, Dora Gordine. Copyright Dorich House Museum at Kingston University Join us for a curator led tour of Dorich House, a Modernist marvel filled with sculpture. Talented, charismatic and dedicated to her art, Dora Gordine (1895-1991) was hailed in 1938 as 'possibly the finest woman sculptor in the world' and she remained a major […]

Join us for a curator led walk through of The Glamour of Italian Fashion focusing on the amazing women driving the Italian fashion industry's rise to prominence. We have the honour of being guided through the exhibition by Sonnet Stanfill, curator. 'Italian fashion is a story of rags to riches almost, as the post-war country […]

Susannah Cibber was one of the most celebrated -- and became the highest paid -- dramatic actresses of the 18th century London Stage.  She was also tabloid fodder as her suggestive private life led to a scandalous adultery trial forcing Cibber to flee to Dublin.  There she was cast by Handel in the Messiah singing […]

Join us (after Cibber at Handel House if you wish, see separate event) to meet artist Annie Kevans who will talk us through her latest series, Women and the History of Art, highlighting women in art history who were once part of the art world and whose history and significance have been gradually eroded. For […]

Join us for a very special afternoon with eminent photographer Dorothy Bohm at Burgh House in Hampstead. D. Bohm, Hampstead Village, 7th April 2000 D. Bohm, Hampstead, Holly Place , early Jan. 2012 Guided by both Dorothy Bohm herself and her daughter, art historian Monica Bohm-Duchen, we shall visit the exhibition In Hampstead 1994-2014: Photographs […]