Past Event
This day-long event offers a platform to consider the position of women in the art world and address questions of inclusion and diversity, especially in relation to museum collections.
Speakers include Iwona Blazwick (former Director Whitechapel Gallery), Susan Fisher Sterling (Director National Museum for Women in the Arts), Ann Gallagher (Director of Collections, British Art, Tate), and collectors Valeria Napoleone and Floriane de Saint Pierre.
Organised in association with AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions and the New Hall Art Collection, Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge.
11.30 Welcome
11.40 Camille Morineau, AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions
‘Restoring the presence of 20th-century women artists in the history of art’
12.00 Gabriele Schor, Founding Director SAMMLUNG VERBUND Collection, Vienna
‘The Feminist Avant-garde of the 1970s’
12.20 Iwona Blazwick, former Director Whitechapel Gallery, London
13.15 Break
Panel One – Museums and Collections
14.15 Susan Fisher Sterling, Director National Museum for Women in the Arts
14.35 Eliza Gluckman, Curator, New Hall Art Collection, Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge
14.55 Ann Gallagher, Director of Collections, British Art, Tate
15.10 Panel discussion
15.45 Break
Panel Two – The Role of Private Collection
16.05 Panel discussion with collectors Valeria Napoleone and Floriane de Saint Pierre, and gallerist Lisa Panting, Co-Director of Hollybush Gardens. Introduced and chaired by curator and writer Caroline Hancock..
17.45 End
