NASTY WOMEN ARE IN ART HISTORY TOO.

As some of you guys know who read this blog, (hello to my sister Sam) I am a curator and one of the founders of Nasty Women North East. We held the first Nasty Women Exhibition in the UK (how fancy!!) We also were the first group to expand the Nasty Women brand into the first Nasty Women Conference. Organised by the other founder of Nasty Women, Lady Kitt. Kitt organized an incredible conference, with many major players from the Nasty Women movement. Founder of the WHOLE movement, Roxanne Jackson, Founder of Nasty Women Amsterdam Airco Caravan. Sarah Maple, award-winning British artists who have been involved in many of the Nasty Women Movements. I curated two exhibitions to accompany this amazing event. The whole thing was a total success!! I am sure a blog will come of it!

One major issue which kept coming up over and over again was where are the women artists in art history. Why are they still not being talked about? Why are they not getting studied in university alongside the male artists? In colleges or schools? This needs to change, I remember being in university and we had one lesson about, name as many female artists you can. THAT WAS IT!! Until we did about performance art in just one other lecture, women were not really brought up. Is this because they weren't around. BULLSHIT!! Where there has been male artists there has been female, you just have to find them yourselves because they are not in the history books.


I was lucky to talk at the conference and at one point I tried to think of female cubist artists………………………………………………..

I could not think of one!!

 And I am a feminist curator with a degree in art history. 

So here I am on my blog, which I haven't touched for a while because I have been a busy bee with all this amazing curator malarkey. I do this to educate myself but if anyone else gets educated, it's a juicy bonus!

So my next season of blogs is going to be called  -

NASTY WOMEN ARE IN ART HISTORY TOO 

Cubist female artists, the forgotten members. 

MAW.