Feminist art/ artists recommendations please

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My daughter is taking an art GCSE, and her theme is feminism. I'm hoping for some recommendations of feminist artists for her to draw inspiration from. She's chosen the theme as she's a very active feminist (and out and proud terf) and through that has found and loves Jess de wahls, Jaqueline secour, and the balbusso twins work. She has to prove that her topic is relevant and that she can draw upon numerous sources of inspiration though, and I am absolutely cultureless and don't know any artists. Has anyone got any good recommendations for her to research? Thank you

There are so many, she’ll be grand

I forgot Maria Lassnig who is a great painter and Alice Neel

Another vote for Paula Rego. Not enough inspiration my arse!

Tamara de lempicka also a feminist icon painter

I wonder what the teacher is thinking? Did dd have any more information about what they meant?

I wonder if your dd is thinking of women artists analysed through a feminist lens, women artists who are feminists, artists of either sex analysed through a feminist lens, or....?

I went to an amazing exhibition recently of Ruth Osawa. Her work seemed so closely entwined with her life as a woman. I loved it.

Then I love Cornelia Parker's work. No idea if she considers herself a feminist, and her work is really not gendered at all to me. But is it work that a man of the same age and culture would produce, and if not why not? Same to me for Rachel Whiteread.

I would say that Tracey Emin and Sarah Lucas explicitly mine their female experience in their art. I adore Tracey Emin's work. Dislike everything I've seen of Lucas's.

Then there are female artists who do things that most women don't get to do, like Angelica Kauffman, a founder member of the RA.

Deborah Czeresko glass artist, who won season 1 of blown away on Netflix.

Look up the story of Paula Rego's abortion series.

Lizzie Siddal's story too

Her theme is very woolly, but generally she wants to explore the work of artists who are / were feminists and how their art and therefore social commentary has changed as womens rights and issues have evolved . But the teacher seems to think that's too long and said just put feminism in art, so here we are.

They get to pick their own themes. No guidance. Just pick a theme / title and start building a portfolio

Perhaps look at Pauline Boty (1938-1966).
She “was a key member of British Pop Art. Studying at the Royal College of Art, she was a friend and colleague of David Hockney, Sir Peter Blake, Derek Boshier and Peter Phillips. In 1961, Boty received positive attention in the national press for the Pop sensibility of collages exhibited alongside Peter Blake. In addition, she was one of the four artists profiled in Ken Russell’s landmark 1962 documentary on English Pop Art, Pop Goes The Easel. This innovative and influential film for the BBC’s Monitor series placed Boty at the centre of emergent British Pop and gave an insight into her working methods. Boty’s premature death in 1966 cut her career short and her works were not exhibited for nearly thirty years. Until recently, her work has been largely overlooked, lost in the limelight cast on her male Pop Art counterparts.”

Yes, Louise Bourgeois and Paula Rego would be my suggestions. What a great project. Hope your DD gets a lot out of it.

Then there's the way that Artemisia Gentileschi processes her own experience of rape by visceral pictures like her Judith And Holofernes, or emphasises woman's vulnerability in her Susanna and the Elders.

Paula rego is an amazing shout. For some modern day painters on the scene...

Colleen Barry
instagram.com/colleenbarryart?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Robin francesca Williams
instagram.com/robinfrancescawilliams?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Anna koak
instagram.com/annakoak?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Anna wyant
instagram.com/annaweyant?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

These feminist artists are working with FiLiA if that helps. shop.filia.org.uk/pages/artists

Alison Bechdel is a cartoonist/graphic novelist and is she of the “Bechdel test” used for films. She created the idea in one of her comic strips.