Women Artists Through Their Words - 4. Leonora Carrington

Join writer, editor and curator Anna McNay to learn about a selection of better- and lesser-well known women artists, from across the ages and working in different mediums, by listening to them talk about their art - and their lives more generally - in their own words.

We are amid a lively period of ‘discovery’ (more accurately, ‘recovery’) of the women artists hitherto missing from our (western) art-historical canon. Yet, even as these artists and their works are celebrated, they continue to be critiqued from the clear standpoint of their being token females in a male-dominated arena. Many of these artists do exploit their sex and gender through their work, but is it right to always view and interpret their art through this lens? We will take as our source material these artists' letters, journals, poetry, interviews and memoirs – alongside their visual works – to build up a picture of their identity…