Month: September 2014
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The subversive stitch
One of the most revealing aspects of Dilys Dowswell’s review of the two exhibitions which formed ‘The Subversive Stitch’ (Issue No.24), was the language she used to contrast the historical documentation of embroidery at the Whitworth Art Gallery with the work of contemporary women shown at the Cornerhouse, Manchester: the Cornerhouse show was ‘inhospitable’ by…
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The Art Consulting Service of Cheapwallarts.com
Cheapwallarts.com, a web site selling modern canvas wall art, is offering an art consulting service—free of charge—to corporate customers. Nick Chen, the president of its sales department and formerly of the art auction house in Xiamen, works with their customers to develop a modern art collection that really reflects the CWA’s culture. Cheapwallarts.com offers more…
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Women in the seven and five society
BETWEEN 1920 and 1935 the Seven and Five Society held 14 exhibitions in London. Of its 56 members during this period, 11 were women artists. At the 1926 exhibition at the Beaux Arts Gallery approximately half the exhibiting artists were women (10 out of 23) and it is in this year that the majority of…
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Women’s art at risk …
THE Women Artists Slide Library begins 1988 with another battle for survival. Its funding application to continue the development of its Journal has been rejected by The Arts Council. Although W.A.S.L. has continued to survive and develop over the years, it has been a hard, up-hill struggle, demanding long hours of work from its paid…
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The Edwardian era
AMIDST THE posters, banners, society portraits, paintings and artefacts there is a teapot beating a frieze of famous military men and the motto: ‘Though it cost the best of our British blood there is no turning back’. In a case among the ornaments is an entertainment for all the family called ‘Boer or Briton: A…