Articles

International Women's Day

To mark International Women’s Day 2017, we are presenting a week of talks, workshops and tours to explore ideas of gender, material and identity in art. Focusing on women artists across different RA exhibitions and the RA Collection, join us to discover some of the under-acknowledged accomplishments of women artists throughout history.

Cornelia Parker RA, Cold Dark Matter, An Exploded View

Artists

4 months ago

The International Women’s Day art quiz

Know your O‘Keeffe from your Kahlo? For International Women’s Day, we’re celebrating a few of the great female artists who deserve a wider audience. Take the quiz and let’s see how much you know.
Josie Cockram, Wanting 1

Opinion

1 year ago

Podcast: Women in focus

Does being a female artist influence how a work is created and perceived? Our panel discuss.
Clockwise from left: Rose Wylie RA, Gillian Wearing RA, Iwona Blazwick, Eileen Cooper RA, vPPR, Ann Dumas, Charlotte Mullins, Valeria Napoleone, Cornelia Parker RA, Rebecca Ackroyd

Opinion

> 1 year ago

10 inspirational women in the arts

To mark International Women’s Day, we asked some of the great women in the UK art world, from artists to editors, where things stand when it comes to equality. Here’s what they said.
Russell Westwood, Sir Henry Rushbury R.A. with students in the Life Room in the Royal Academy Schools

Opinion

2 years ago

Podcast: Women in today’s art world

At an event celebrating International Women’s Day, a panel of female Academicians and students discuss their experience as 21st-century artists.
Russell Westwood, Sir Henry Rushbury R.A. with students in the Life Room in the Royal Academy Schools

Our Collection

> 2 years ago

Naked truth: the story of female life models at the RA

In the final blog in our International Women’s Day series, we return to the Life Room to understand the historic role of the female nude life model at the RA.
Alfred Ansell, Life drawing of a reclining male nude. This drawing was produced by Alfred Ansell while he was a student at the Royal Academy Schools.

Our Collection

> 2 years ago

“Striving after excellence”: Victorian women and the fight for arts training

Amy Bluett discovers how 19th-century women aspiring to be artists had an uphill struggle to get equal access to training at the Royal Academy Schools.

After Johann Zoffany RA, The Royal Academy of Arts

Our Collection

> 2 years ago

Mary Moser and Angelica Kauffman: the RA’s founding women

Amy Bluett discovers how women at the Royal Academy have fought for equality from 1768 up to the present, beginning with a closer look at founding Members Angelica Kauffman and Mary Moser.