WHAT'S NEXT FOR WOMEN ARTISTS, CURATORS, AND PRACTITIONERS?
My advice to women in the arts today is that it is a changed world. But it really is still a case of pushing and pushing and making opportunities and never being complacent.
Frances Morris, Director of Tate Modern
At 1 February 2017, 27 per cent of living contemporary artists in the Tate Collection are women. The gap has narrowed in more recent years and focused efforts are being made to collect work by women artists. But this is only a start. The next step is to bring more and more diverse voices into the gallery, to seek out women doing challenging and innovative work and those who were neglected by history, and to work torwards greater representation of diverse, non-European women in collections and galleries, at Tate and beyond.
As artist and professor Joan Semmel put it: '...if there are no great celebrated women artists, that's because the powers that be have not been celebrating them, but not because they are not there.' This Women's History Month, celebrate women in art with the #5WomenArtists campaign. Can you name five women artists? Join the conversation on social media, and do your part in bringing the stories of women artists to light.
What does it mean to be a woman in art?
