Tracy Hill, Research Fellow & Project Curator at Artlab Contemporary Print Studios, University of Central Lancashire, leads a discussion on women artists and print, building a collection of prints made by women, and new approaches to women artists in public print collections. Panellists include Turner prize winning artist, Lubaina Himid, Magda Stawarska, Heather Peak, Dr Heather Mullender-Ross, Rebecca Chesney, Creative Director of WCPF, Lizzie Glendinning and a leading UK museum Curator.
This is the first year that the Art Lab Contemporary Print Prize will be awarded to a woman artist exhibiting in the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair curated hang to receive a two-week residency at the University of Central Lancashire with a subsequent acquisition to their women’s art collection.
Join Founder & Creative Director of Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair (and Mother), Lizzie Glendinning, as she moderates a panel discussion surrounding (Re)emerging artists after childcare, and how the versatility of printmaking might be helping mothers navigate their way back into their profession. Discussing the topic with celebrated writer and Curator, Hettie Judah (How Not to Exclude Artist Mothers; Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood), Founder & Creative Director of PROCREATE PROJECT CIC, Dyana Gravina, and leading Artist-Mothers; Katherine Jones RA, Flavia Pinto & Cat Roissetter, they interrogate how motherhood can effect the status of them as being a ‘professional’ artist; and if (mis)conceptions around print as 'crafty', ‘hobbiest’, or as a lesser art form because of its popularity among women artists?
Join a panel of experts for a fascinating discussion of the changing structures and future direction of the art world. Key hot topics include: new models for art institutions as they face unprecedented financial and existential challenges; the growing role of philanthropy in funding the arts; the rise of the private art museum and the blurring of the public and private art sectors; and the changing institutions of the art market.
This talk has been made possible with the generous support of Lund Humphries and Sotheby's Institute of Art in relation to the event and the book series, Hot Topics in the Art World (published by Lund Humphries in association with Sotheby's Institute of Art).