Exhibition announcement

Time to announce a new project and my first solo exhibition!

I will be showing the ‘Woman of Genius’ series at Maidstone Museum and Bentlif Art Gallery alongside a curated selection of pre-20^th century female artists, during March and April 2016.

I have been working on the ‘Women of Genius’ series of drawings for the past few years with the intention of using these drawings to highlight work by female artists.  These are often languishing in the store-rooms of museum collections around the country, frequently unexhibited, underappreciated or unattributed.

Maidstone Museum has work by Sofonisba Anguissola and Mary Beale in its collection – both of whom I have been researching for the ‘Woman of Genius’ drawings.  As well as these better known artists, they have over 80 works by other female artists and as part of the exhibition I will be making a series of new works in response to their archives.

The project is still very much in the planning stage, but I hope to be able to explore and show a new facet of the collection of the museum, as well as highlight the historical achievements of women in the arts.