(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...

(United States of America, 08/10/1930 - 13/04/2020) For the Women's House (1971) Growing up surrounded by the thriving Harlem Renaissance...

(England, 30/08/1855 - 02/05/1919) Medea (1889) As the daughter of an upper-class, aristocratic family born in the middle of the 19th...

(France, 19/04/1849 - 06/05/1883) As one of just four women involved with the original Impressionist movement as painters, Gonzalès offers a rare glimpse into the world of late-nineteenth-century Paris from the viewpoint of a woman navigating the capital of the art world. Born into an eclectic and artistic family (her father was writer Emmanuel Gonzalès and her mother, Marie-Céline Ragut, was a musician), she and her sister were well-educated and encouraged to pursue their ar

(Australia, 07/02/1872 - 17/06/1962) Esquisse en Australie (1908) Beginning her training at the Slade School of Art, Carrick painted...

(England, 25/07/1829 - 11/02/1862) Self Portrait (c.1853-54) Well aware of her position in society and how she was portrayed by the...

(United States of America, 12/03/1918 - 01/02/1989) As both artist and critic, de Kooning bridged the division between art and writing, helping to introduce the wider world to the artists of the New York School. Frequently visiting museums and galleries in New York as a child, she began to draw at 5 years old and sold portraits of her classmates at school before studying mathematics at Hunter College. Quickly realising life in academia was not for her, she soon left to pursue