Conversation Not Spectacle is a group exhibition that explores the history and development of The Women’s Art Collection.
The Women’s Art Collection: Conversation Not Spectacle is a group exhibition that explores the history and development of The Women’s Art Collection.
Beginning with the artist-in-residence scheme that seeded the idea for the Collection, the exhibition takes us through three decades, from the very first acquisition campaign all the way up to the present day.
The exhibition title draws on the words of feminist art historian Professor Griselda Pollock at the Collection’s launch in 1992. Of the artworks and the Collection’s radical potential, she declared: “Hanging here together, they provide not a dumb spectacle but a model of conversation.”
Artists: Elizabeth Blackadder, Claudia Clare, Eileen Cooper, Amanda Faulkner, Elisabeth Frink, Guerrilla Girls, Maggi Hambling, Nicola Hicks, Charlotte Hodes, Alexis Hunter, Nerys Ann Johnson, Lucy Jones, Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, Anya Paintsil, Paula Rego, Faith Ringgold and Grace Matthews, Jo Spence, Lexi Strauss, Suzanne Treister, Elisabeth Vellacott, Coral Woodbury.
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