(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) Beginning her training at the Slade School of Art, Carrick painted Impressionist scenes en plein air before settling into a Post-Impressionist style, preferring the blockier compositions and higher colour contrasts. In 1903, after finishing her studies at Slade, Carrick was featured in her first group exhibition in London followed by several more in Paris and received her first solo exhibition (and her first outside London and Paris) in Me

(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

(United States of America, 25/08/1910 - 31/01/2012) Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (1943) Tanning’s unique path into the Surrealist unconscious...

(United States of America, 19/01/1954 -) Untitled (2008) Emerging alongside the ‘Pictures Generation’, Sherman used photography to expose...

(England, 1969 - ) Foxglove (2001) Born in London, in 1969, Bown’s family was one of creativity and intellectual vibrancy. Her mother,...

(United States of America, 20/04/1953 -) Woman and Daughter with Makeup (1990) After picking up a camera for the first time at the age of...

(England, 10/01/1903 - 20/05/1975) At seventeen years old, Hepworth began her academic studies at the Leeds School of Art in 1920 where she won a scholarship to study at the Royal College of Art the following year. Completing her studies in 1924, she travelled to Florence, coming runner-up in the prestigious Prix-de-Rome and studying Romanesque and early Renaissance art and architecture, later learning to carve marble from the master-carver Giovanni Ardini. Hepworth was the f

(08/07/1593 - 1653) Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting (c.1638-39) One of the most accomplished painters of the Italian Baroque,...

(23/07/1721 - 09/11/1782) Self-Portrait with Monocle (c.1776-82) One of the few women of the 18th century to achieve recognition within...

(10/02/1848 - 25/02/1936) As both an artist and collector, Boch occupies a unique position within the history of late nineteenth-century European art, a rare synthesis of creative production and cultural patronage that made her both participant and benefactor in the intertwined histories of Impressionism , Neo-Impressionism and Post-Impressionism . Boch’s dual identity afforded her a vantage point from which to engage intimately with the leading avant-garde painters of her ge

(28/01/1900 - 13/10/1984) Self-Portrait (1980) Among the most innovative figurative painters of the twentieth century, Neel refused to follow trends and changes in art aligned with the popular Modernism and Abstraction movements of her time. Instead, she depicted her family and friends (some famous, some anonymous to history) as their most raw, honest and, at times, confronting selves, through expressive colour and psychological depth that captures their vulnerability and res

(1435 - 1504) The Maid of Ghent - Flag of the City of Ghent (1481-82) One of the earliest documented female painters to have worked...

(11/04/1749 - 24/04/1803) Born into a working-class family, Labille-Guiard was an artist unlikely to succeed by both gender and class, yet, at just 20 years old, was admitted to the Académie de Saint-Luc followed by the Royal Academy in 1783 and made her Salon debut that same year. Labille-Guiard was an ardent advocate for women’s artistic education and was herself a teacher to many male and female students. She frequently challenged the Academy to end limitations of the numb

(Australia, 01/09/1884 - 03/08/1961) Hilda Rix Nicholas’s rural landscapes and portraits of spirited soldiers were some of the most significant and impactful contributions to Australian art in the inter-war years, challenging conventional representations of the Australian landscape and people with her adoption of Post-Impressionist styles, one of the first Australians to do so. Born in Ballarat, Victoria, in 1884, her father was a prominent teacher and poet, and her mother wa

(Argentina-Italy, 30/08/1907 - 18/01/1996) Exploring the nature of beauty and age, love and sex and life and decay through her depiction of ambivalent sorceresses, Fini’s work flipped the switch on the subjugation of women as degenerate femme fatales with the women in her artworks, to whom she gave all the powers and complexity denied to herself and the women before her, ultimately working to resituate women artists away from the paradigms of the previous centuries. Born in B

(Dutch, 26/07/1609 - 10/02/1660) 17th century Dutch Golden Age painter, Judith Leyster was, like many great women artists, highly regarded during her lifetime but quickly forgotten, and even purposefully erased, after her death. In so far as is known Leyster was the first woman in Western art history to have been officially recognised as a ‘master painter’ by a painters’ guild when she joined the Guild of St. Luke in 1633, at just 24 years old, where she was the only female a