Redressing the Balance: Women Artists from The Ingram Collection
Some of the best-known British artists of the 20th century were women. Artists such as Dame Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975) and Dame Elisabeth Frink (1930-1993) worked against pre-conceptions to forge successful careers and contribute in ground-breaking ways to the histories of art. But these women remained the exception, and since the 1970s debate has taken place around why gender parity in the arts - in terms of exhibition representation, presence in museum collections and commercial success – is so hard to achieve.
Inequality in almost all areas of the art world still exist. Male artists dominate historical collections and museum exhibitions: statistics from 2012 reveal that work by women artists made up 3-5% of major museum collections in the US and Europe. The Ingram Collection is unusual in that 29% of its artists are women, rising to 64% in its collection of contemporary artists alone.
To support and inspire young women artists it is important for them to be able to see historical women artists in museums, and getting the critical and contextual placement they deserve. This tour explores the ideas and narratives behind paintings, sculptures, film and performance-based artworks by a variety of women artists in The Ingram Collection, placing works by well-known artists alongside those by women who have graduated from art school over the last twenty years.
42 mins
Introduction
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3:10
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Dod Procter, The Golden Girl
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1:01
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Dora Carrington, Iris Tree on a Horse
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Eileen Agar, The Sower
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Sybil Andrews, Windmill
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Sybil Andrews, Football
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1:08
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Margaret Thomas, No. 37 Edinburgh Trams
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0:38
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Winifred Nicholson, Woman Playing A Piano (Vera Moore)
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1:30
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Bridget Riley, Woman at Tea-table
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0:54
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Anne-Katrin Purkiss, Portrait of Bridget Riley
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Dame Laura Knight, Sea and Rocks
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Rosemary Young, Women With Children
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Wilhelmina Barns-Graham
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Dame Barbara Hepworth, Two hospital drawings
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Dame Barbara Hepworth, Granite Forms
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1:06
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Dame Barbara Hepworth, Construction 1
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0:53
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Dame Barbara Hepworth, Sculpture with colour and strings
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1:49
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Dame Elisabeth Frink, Bird
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2:19
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Dame Elisabeth Frink, Eagle (Lectern)
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Dame Elisabeth Frink, Rolling Over Horse
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1:36
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Anne-Katrin Purkiss, Portrait of Elisabeth Frink
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1:11
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Mary Fedden, Orange and Green Still Life
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Barbara Rae, Roadside - Castelfiorentino
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Dolly Thompsett, Expedition Interior
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0:54
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Lucy Jones, Wheelie
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Lucy Jones, A Handful of Tears
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0:51
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Nicola Anthony, Saving Our Souls
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1:32
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Nicola Anthony, The Journey of our Parallel Lives
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Nicola Anthony, Maze Fragment
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Sophie Ryder, Seated Minotaur and Hare
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1:03
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Chloe Wing, Paper Cage
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2:02
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Emma Woffenden, Cross Dressing
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Emma Woffenden, Elephant Revenge
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Emma Vidal, Untitled (Moon Child)
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Justar Misdemeanor, Soldier
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Liseth Amaya, Loss of the soil
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1:12
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Liseth Amaya, It remains as it is
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0:58
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Ellie Preston, Commuters!
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Phyllis McGowan, Blue Bonnet
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1:15
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Anna Liber Lewis, Holy Trinity
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Tahmina Negmat, Interrupted Ejaculation
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Emma Prempeh, The Vulnerable Disposition
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Lucy Gregory, Images Have Legs
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1:20
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Suki Chan, Interval II
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Karolina Magnusson-Murray
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Aleah Chapin, The Tempest
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Credits
This tour is delivered by Jo Baring, Director & Curator of The Ingram Collection of Modern British & Contemporary Art.
