News — international womens day

 

As a woman and particularly one working in art, I've found the growing focus on women artists at galleries and museums absolutely exhilarating. Women's voices that just a decade ago were local and marginalised are now mainstream and global. Notably, large institutions like Tate have been programming considerably more women solo shows. The last edition of the Venice Biennale finally achieved gender equality after 124 years with 53% women artists. The museum show Artimesia at the National Gallery, the first major exhibition in the UK of Baroque painter Artimesia Gentileschi- who continues to be woefully left out of much of the historical canon- is another significant step towards better representation of women in art. It suddenly feels like the campaign for gender parity in the art world is picking up pace.............

Jane Burrows is a painter and printmaker who creates abstract compositions of the female form. From a small studio in her flat in Hampstead, London, Jane creates bold and beautiful hand-pressed monotypes that derive from life drawing. In this interview, Jane shares her personal journey from muse to master and why she chose fine art over graphic design.

Just in time for Women's International Day, we interview Sarah J. Stanley, the painter from Glasgow, about her new series of artworks, entitled '1 to 6000'. She talks about how her strict Christian cult upbringing is the stimulus to her nonconformist art and how outsider artists, Z B Armstrong and Howard Finster have heavily influenced her love of grids and text.