Laura Knight, A Dark Pool, 1917 © Estate of Dame Laura Knight. All rights reserved2024 / Bridgeman Images
Details
This ambitious and enlightening exhibition charts the trials as well as the triumphs of women artists working in Britain over a period of four hundred years. It celebrates the work of well-known names such as Artemisia Gentileschi, Angelica Kauffman, Julia Margaret Cameron and Gwen John as well as revealing the work of those who have been all but forgotten. The nineteenth century, in spite of a vast expansion in public exhibition venues, saw women artists becoming increasingly active in their campaign to be admitted to art schools and life drawing classes and then to women’s suffrage. The final artists in the exhibition, Laura Knight and Ethel Walker, offer powerful examples of ambitious, independent, confident professionals who achieved critical acclaim in the early twentieth century.
Venue
Tate Britain, Millbank, London, England, SW1
Event Organisers
Sarah Bowles and Philippa Barton
Cost
Cost of the visit is £50 - plus Eventbrite booking fee
Cost of the visit for Art Fund member is £40 - plus Eventbrite booking fee
Cost of the visit for a Tate Britain Member is £30 - plus Eventbrite booking fee
Programme
10.30am
Visit to the exhibition Now you See Us: Women Artists in Britain 1520 – 1920 at Tate Britain with
Claudia Merkle, Art Historian