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Saatchi Gallery’s all-female exhibition

Awhite-haired woman looks unnervingly across a huge white space in the Saatchi Gallery from ashen eyes magnified by huge tortoiseshell-framed spectacles. What has she seen? What does she know? And why does her judgment seem so severe? Ljubica is one of three colossal portraits of older women by Jelena Bulajić that feature in Champagne Life, an exhibition entirely by female artists that opens at the Saatchi next week. Bulajić is in her 20s, but the women she portrays bear the marks of time: they are “old women”, but here one of modern society’s most marginalised identities is painte

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Shirley baker: the first female street photographer

Source: I-D

It's one of the arts' great travesties that the technological improvements in handheld cameras post-WW2 didn't lead to more female photographers, generally, and specifically, female photographers working as documentarians and photojournalists. If it led to a new genre of image making, of capturing live as it was lived, as a record of the times, it was denied a woman's eye. Cartier-Bresson and Robert Frank might've been the masters of the style, and Magnum the holy grail, but for photographers like Shirley Baker even getting a press card to cover events was a problem, which prevented her fr

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Nominees for the 2015 Turner Prize Include Three Women Artists and a Housing Project

Source: Artnet

The shortlist for the 2015 Turner Prize is out, and it includes three women and a housing collective: Bonnie Camplin, Janice Kerbel, Nicole Wermers, and the 18-person strong design and architecture collective Assemble. The four nominations show a clear tendency towards giving recognition to socially and politically-engaged art, as the Guardian points out. The nomination of London-based collective Assemble, who is credited for reviving a housing project in a derelict area of Liverpool, sets a precedence in the history of the Turner Prize.

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Celebrating UK Women Who Were the First in Their Fields

Source: My Modern Met

In 2008, Anita Corbin began First Women, a 10-year project that will mark an anniversary worth celebrating. When her artistic mission ends in 2018, Corbin plans to have captured 100 portraits of 100 U.K. women who were the first to achieve something remarkable in their specific fields. The year 2018 will also pay tribute to the 100-year anniversary of women's suffrage in the United Kingdom. First Women is not only meant to highlight women's achievements. This significant photography collection is designed to inspire younger generations of women who are trying to find their place in a world