Access to Arts

About Event There are only 2 works of art by women to ever have broken into the top 100 auction sales in art history, despite the fact over half of the top 25 best selling pieces feature women as the subject matter. Alongside the National Gallery exhibiting over 2280 works of which only 21 are made by women. How do we elevate and celebrate women artists and cultivate the spaces for which their work can be seen? About Host Aindrea Emelife is an art historian, writer, independent curator, author and presenter from London. Aindrea trained as an art historian at the prestigious Courtauld Institute of Art and has quickly gone on to become a ground-breaking new voice in an art world otherwise steeped in tradition. Agenda Round table discussion. What To Bring READ_Great Women Artists by Phaidon. www.amazon.co.uk/Great-Women-Artists-Phaidon-Editors/dp/0714878774 READ_ Women, Art and Society by Whitney Chadwick. www.amazon.co.uk/Women-Art-Society-World/dp/050020456X/ref=pd_lpo_1 READ_Seeing Ourselves: Women’s Self-Portraits. www.amazon.co.uk/Seeing-Ourselves-Self-Portraits-Frances-Borzello/dp/0500239460 READ_Woman Made: Great Women Designers by Jane Hall. wordery.com/woman-made-jane-hall-9781838662851/GB? LISTEN_ The Great Women Artists Podcasts. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/leilah-babirye/id1480259187 LISTEN_Bow Down: Women in Art Podcast. open.spotify.com/episode/5QpcSFhQo3FRuRnM6H5F7M ARTICLE_ The XX Factor - The New Yorker www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/04/24/the-xx-factor REPORT_Diversity In The Arts - Arts Council UK www.artscouncil.org.uk/developing-creativity-and-culture/diversity