Description
This preview offers exclusive early access to the gallery’s Frieze exhibition, presenting women artists across four centuries and Patrons are warmly invited to join us to view the exhibition with an address and introduction by gallery owner Philip Mould.
From Britain’s first professional women artists of the 17th century to radical figures of the 20th century, the exhibition brings together rarely seen works that challenge and expand the canon of art history.
Highlights include portraits by Joan Carlile and Mary Beale – Britain’s earliest professional female painters – and a recently re-attributed work by Adriana Verelst. A major work by Margaret Carpenter rivals the status of Thomas Lawrence’s iconic Red Boy, alongside Maria Spilsbury, and the remarkable Sarah Biffin.
These historical voices are shown in conversation with works by modern artists, including a rare Vorticist work by Jessica Dismorr, who forged her career amid a movement that was profoundly male-dominated.
Refreshments will be served.
Cost: free for Patrons. Go to our Join Us page to become a Patron.
To book for this event please email nmwa.uk@gmail.com
Image: Joan Carlile, Portrait of a Lady, 1650s.
