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  • Vandalism: the ultimate form of censorship

    During 1987, two incidents were reported to W.A.S.L. concerning vandalism and censorship. Outlining the circumstances of these incidents opens up old debates around art in public places, both in a gallery situation and outside of it. Last year two sculptresses, Diane Maclean and Barbara Lander worked together to produce an exhibition called ‘Two Hands Make…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Beatrix Potter

    THE LITTLE BOOKS, for which Beatrix Potter is best known, form just a part of a life in which she tried to achieve personal independence and fulfilment while at the same time remaining a dutiful daughter in a middle-class Victorian family. Her wealthy and privileged background was a mixed blessing. On the positive side was…

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