Women in Focus: Perspectives of a Female Artist
Saturday 5 March 2016 3 - 4.15pm
The Reynolds Room, Burlington House, Royal Academy of Arts
£10. Reductions £5.
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As part of our celebration of International Women’s Day, join our panel of artists as they explore what it means to create work from a female perspective in today’s contemporary art world.
Is the gender of an artist significant in the creative process? Does being a female artist influence how a work is created and perceived? How significant is ‘the female gaze’ in contemporary art – work that is presented from a female perspective or reflecting female attitudes.
In this event, our panel of artists, including Eva Rothschild RA, Vanessa Jackson RA and Josie Cockram, discuss these issues and the extent to which being a female artist has influenced their work. The event will be chaired by Hilary Robinson, Professor of Visual Culture at Middlesex University and editor of Feminism-Art-Theory 1968-2014.
Eva Rothschild RA
Eva Rothschild RA is an Irish sculptor interested in the transformative power of looking. She uses materials such as Plexiglas, leather and paper in her sculptural work and also has an extensive body of wall-based works and video. Recent exhibitions and public commissions have included the Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, 2014, a large-scale sculpture Why Don’t You? at The Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas, 2012, and the film Boys and Sculpture made for The Whitechapel Gallery Children’s Commission, 2012. She is represented by Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London and by 303 Gallery, New York. Rothschild lives and works in London.
Vanessa Jackson RA
Vanessa Jackson RA is a painter and installation wall painter, whose use of geometry and its three dimensional function deny the supposed flatness of modernist space. Her work explores the contradiction of a fully realised space at once pertaining to logic and completeness and uncertainty and unease. Jackson studied at St Martins School of Art, followed by the Royal College of Art. She has had a prolific teaching career and was president of the New Contemporaries in 1975. Jackson lives and works in London.
Josie Cockram
Josie Cockram, recent graduate of the RA Schools, previously studied Literature at Cardiff University and Fine Art at University College Falmouth and Camberwell College of Art. Josie works with photographic print, moving image, sculpture and sound. Images are recordings of actual, rather than imagined, places, people and events. But, there is slippage between objectness, imageness, sound and space that disrupts the language of documentation.
Josie has currently been granted the Batter Street Studio Residency at Plymouth Arts Centre until May 2016.