Women in Revolt!: Art and Activism in the UK 197090

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Tate Britain exhibition: 8 November 2023 - 7 April 2024

National Galleries Scotland: Modern, Edinburgh: 25 May 2024 - 26 January 2025

Whitworth Art Gallery, the University of Manchester: 7 March - 1 June 2025
A timely exploration of the work and lived experiences of a postwar generation of women artists that have largely been omitted from art historical narratives, Women in Revolt! surfaces the wealth and diversity of work created in the UK during the 1970s and 80s, a period of seismic social and political change.

Showcasing a wide variety of mediums including painting, drawing, sculpture, performance, film and photography, this richly illustrated book demonstrates how women's needs were marginalised within mainstream culture and reveals how these artists used radical ideas and methods to confront issues that will resonate with contemporary audiences - from access to healthcare and class struggles to ecological disaster, racism and misogyny.

Exploring themes and issues such as the Women's Liberation Movement, maternal and domestic experiences, the Greenham Common and the peace movement, the intersection of punk, feminism and art, the visibility of Black and South Asian women artists, feminist film distribution, Section 28 and the AIDS pandemic, Women in Revolt! celebrates the full diversity of what was a highly creative, politically engaged and determined community of women that paved the way for future generations and, ultimately, changed the face of British culture.

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Linsey Young is Curator of Contemporary British Art at Tate. She was lead curator of the Turner Prize in 2016, 2018 and 2024. Young also curated the major touring exhibition and publication project Women In Revolt! Art and Activism in the UK 19701990. The first of its kind, the exhibition is a wide-ranging exploration of feminist art by over 100 women artists working in the UK. Alice Correia is an art historian and editor of What is Black Art: Writings on African, Asian and Caribbean Art in Britain, 19811989, published by Penguin in 2022. Stella Dadzie is a historian, activist, educator, and a founding member of the Organisation of Women of Asian and African Descent (OWAAD). Her book The Heart of the Race: Black Womens Lives in Britain won the 1985 Martin Luther King Award for Literature. Amrita Dhallu is Assistant Curator, International Art at Tate Modern. Zuzana Flaskovais Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary British Art at Tate. Rachel Garfield is Head of Art at University of Reading, with particular interests in lens-based media. She is also an artist and writer. Most recently she authored the book, Experimental Filmmaking and Punk: Feminist Audio Visual Culture in the 1970s and 80s, published by Bloomsbury in 2021. Juliet Jacques is a writer and filmmaker who co-founded and co-hosted Suite (212) on Resonance 104.4fm, which looked at the arts in their social, cultural, political and historical contexts. Dorothy Price is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art and Critical Race Art History at the Courtauld. She was previously at the University of Bristol, where she was Professorial research lead for the Transnational Modernisms Research Cluster, and a founder member and inaugural Director of the Centre for Black Humanities. Price is also Editor of the journal Art History and founded the Tate/Paul Mellon Centres British Art Network subgroup on Black British Art. Ash Reid is a PhD candidate at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her project researches the histories and presents of feminist film distributor Cinenova, particularly the ways in which video and film production intersect with the narrative of productive citizenship offered by neoliberal funding regimes in Britain. Amy Tobin is Curator of Contemporary Programmes at Kettles Yard, University of Cambridge and Director of Studies in History of Art and Fellow, Newnham College. She co-edited Art of Feminism, published in London and San Francisco by Tate and Chronicle Books in 2018.