(Austria, 08/09/1919 - 06/05/2014) Self-Portrait with Stick (1971) Born in Kappel am Krappfeld, Austria, Lassnig devoted her work to...

(Portugal, 13/06/1908 - 06/03/1992) The Gardens No.2 (1966) Born in Lisbon, da Silva began studying drawing and painting at the Academia...

(United States of America, 03/11/1905 - 09/06/1998) Street Vendors, Haiti 1978 (1978) Raised by working-class parents who emphasised the...

(Germany, 28/11/1898 - 21/01/1993) Laserstein was a trailblazer in Germany’s Weimar Republic, she exhibited her work in Germany and throughout Europe wherein she explored gender stereotypes and identity, but was forced into obscurity with the rise of the Nazi party who labelled her a ‘three-quarter Jew’ and her work as ‘degenerate’, leading to a large portion of her work being seized, along with more than 15,000 pieces from other artists, and displayed in the Degenerate Art e

(England, 06/04/1917 - 25/05/2011) The Giantess (1950) Attracted to surrealism for its anti-establishment values that contrasted entirely...

(United States of America, 27/10/1908 - 19/06/1984) Combat (1965) A pioneer of the Abstract Expressionist movement, Krasner was renowned for her bold compositions and a lifetime of devotion to artistic innovation. Born Lena Krassner in 1908 in Brooklyn, Krasner showed early talent and a fierce commitment to becoming an artist, enrolling in art school at just 13 and going on to study at prestigious institutions including the Women’s Art School at Cooper Union and later at the

(Italy, 24/08/1552 - 11/08/1614) Self-Portrait at the Clavichord with a Servant (1577) A pioneering Italian painter of the late...

(United States of America, 25/06/1898 - 08/01/1963) Born in New York to a wealthy family, Sage spent her childhood travelling extensively through Europe with her mother, particularly in Italy, where she developed a deep appreciation for art along with fluency in French and Italian. At the age of 19, Sage enrolled in painting classes at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, D.C., before dropping out when she and her mother returned to Italy the following year. This short s

(Hungary, 01/05/1923 - 06/08/2020) Guano (1957) Celebrated for forging a unique artistic path between Surrealism and lyrical abstraction,...

(England, 07/12/1831 - 15/07/1861) Renowned for her genre works and historical portraits and sketches, Boyce’s career, while brief, paved the way for women in Victorian art and the Pre-Raphaelite circle but is largely overshadowed by that of her watercolourist brother. Born in 1831 in London, Boyce began her formal training in landscape and architecture at 11 years old before later enrolling at Cary’s Academy where she and her brother first became acquainted with members of t

(United States of America, 12/02/1925 - 30/10/1992) Born in Chicago to a wealthy family, Mitchell was immersed in the city’s cultural elite from the very beginning; her mother was a poet and her father a doctor, which provided her not only financial security but access to artists of all kinds. Despite this, her childhood wasn’t all rainbows and daisies, as she had a complex and often abusive relationship with her father, who wished he had been born a boy and who instilled in

(England, 05/07/1970 - ) Reverse (2002-03) Best known for her female portraits, Saville explores gender, sexuality and violence through...

(England, 09/10/1906 - 11/04/1988) Alcove II (1948) As an occult artist, writer, and theorist, Colquhoun’s career spanned seven decades...

(Finland, 10/07/1862 - 23/01/1946) Self-Portrait, Black Background (1915) One of Finland’s most well-known artists, Schjerfbeck’s talent...

(Wales, 22/06/1876 - 18/09/1939) Self-Portrait (c.1900) Celebrated for her subtle, introspective portraits and domestic interiors, John’s...

(Egypt, 22/05/1963 - ) Colour Misbehavior (2009) Born in Cairo in 1963, Amer and her family relocated to France when she was 11 years...

(United States of America, 15/11/1887 - 06/03/1986) White Iris (1930) Nicknamed the ‘Mother of American Modernism’, O’Keeffe was raised...

(Germany, 19/02/1877 - 19/05/1962) Often starting and finishing her paintings in just one sitting, Münter’s prismatic works create new worlds wherein the artist’s subjectivity is manifested in brightly coloured abstract forms. Her kaleidoscopic and fluorescent palette, often applied with a palette knife to produce rough textures on an otherwise flat form, bring to life the vivacious character of her subjects while simultaneously revealing the speed and compulsion with which s

(Mexico, 06/07/1907 - 13/07/1954) Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird (1940) Known for her vivid, emotionally charged...

(New Zealand, 28/04/1869 - 13/05/1947) Loveday and Ann: Two Women with a Basket of Flowers (1915) Arguably New Zealand’s leading...