Structural transformation to support gender equity in the arts
Institutions must think about gender equity and how creative labour, practice and outputs are valued economically, socially and culturally.
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Institutions must think about gender equity and how creative labour, practice and outputs are valued economically, socially and culturally.
CoUNTess: Spoiling Illusions Since 2008 details the sad truth of inequity in gender representation in visual arts in Australia.
If one reads through every word of this plan, as I masochistically did, it sounds so empty, formulaic and repetitious.
The National Gallery of Australia has launched a Gender Equity Action Plan to accelerate gender equity in all its programs and exhibits.
Her essay was both a clarion call for a new generation of women and a signal to change the institutions that shape the understanding of art. Nochlin was not writing from the perspective of an artist, frustrated at the lack of recognition, nor was she simply claiming that past women geniuses had seen their work relegated to the attic. Rather, as one of the great authorities on 19th century European art, she gave a scathing and detailed analysis of how and why white bourgeois men were “great” while women and people of colour were not. She wrote: … the question of women’s equality — ...