Unstoppable: A Women's Exhibition

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Molly Lamb Bobak, "Vase of Flowers," nd

watercolour, 26.5" x 20.5"

Unstoppable: A Women's Exhibition

Opening reception with artists in attendance, Saturday, April 6, 2019

Refreshments by Sea Cider Farm & Ciderhouse

Jan Stirling, piano; Russ Botten, bass

When Peggy Guggenheim opened the ground-breaking “Exhibition by 31 Women” at her Art of the Century gallery in New York City in 1942, one journalist is said to have refused to cover the show for a major American publication because he felt there were “no worthy women artists”.

Around the same time, the artist and instructor Hans Hoffmann offered a “compliment” to the influential American abstract expressionist painter Lee Krasner: “This is so good you wouldn’t know it was done by a woman.”

Throughout the history of art, women artists have been discounted and sidelined, but it is now a universal truth that the times they are a changing.

No longer are women artists banned from life drawing classes for reasons of propriety; no longer must women of artistic inclination be born into very wealthy or very artistic families to be afforded support and find acceptance for their creative endeavours, nor must they hitch their wagon to an aristocratic or royal patron in order to garner acceptance in a world that has so long been male dominated.

At Winchester Galleries we have proudly shown the work of women artists for 25 years, so it a pleasure that global sentiment now demands that we shout about it.

We are delighted to be shouting.