Exhibition Opening: Looking at Her
The figurative and the fictitious
Join us for drinks at 6pm for the opening of our new exhibition. explores portraiture and how artists turn to the figurative and the fictitious in their expansive depictions of women. Portraits of writers, poets and artists sit alongside speculative imaginings of interior worlds to explore women’s lives more universally.
How women are seen and how they see themselves runs through several of the works, prompting us to think about the inherent multiplicity of the self and how we are perceived by others.
Drawing from the works in The Women’s Art Collection as well as long term loans, this exhibition showcases the work of women artists to comprehend the myriad ways that artists wrestle with the experience of being in the world, both corporally and spiritually.
Artists
Eileen Agar, Felicity Allen, Nicky Bird, Eva Frankfurther, Margaret Harrison, Sadie Lee, Linder, France-Lise McGurn, Trupti Patel, Anne-Katrin Purkiss, Soheila Sokhanvari, Renee Spierdijk, Shafei Xia
Image: Soheila SokhanvariThe Silent Mirror (Portrait of Forough Farrokhzad) 2024. © The artist