27% of the 1,300 works in the Ben Uri Collection are by female artists. That’s 9 times larger than the national average for private and public collections which runs at just 3%. Art history is littered with immensely talented female artists who devoted their lives to challenging the prejudices of the art establishment, although their work was often eclipsed by their male peers purely on account of their gender. The Ben Uri Collection includes artworks by a plethora of female artists, often from vastly different backgrounds and who lived very different lives. What they all have in common, however, is their pursuit of a career in a completely male-dominated industry, and their shared experience of what the painter C.R.W Nevinson called, a “vile, dead wall of prejudice and hatred”. Over the next week Ben Uri will explore in a series of online posts how female artists have struggled to carve out a place for themselves within the art world, despite being just as driven and politically engaged as their male peers, looking specifically at three subversive women artists who have work in the Ben Uri Collection: Lily Delissa Joseph, (1863 - 1940), Chana Kowalska (1907 - 41) and Clare Winsten [née Clara Binberg] (1892 - 1984). You can take a look at their work by browsing the collection here: ow.ly/sUqVc
Posted on: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 13:31:23 +0000
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