Liberties: An exhibition of contemporary art reflecting on 40 years since the Sex Discrimination Act (1975)

From  Day+Gluckman

'Lucy Day and Eliza Gluckman, a curatorial partnership who have been working together since 2006. Initially trained as artists and latterly working as curators they have worked for many years across independent, public, artist-led and commercial galleries. 

http://www.dayandgluckman.co.uk

We're very excited to announce our final show at Collyer Bristow Gallery that will open in July and run until October. 

Liberties
An exhibition of contemporary art reflecting on 40 years since the Sex Discrimination Act (1975)

Guler Ates, Helen Barff, Sutapa Biswas, Sonia Boyce, Jemima Burrill, Helen Chadwick, Sarah Duffy, Rose English, Rose Finn-Kelcey, Alison Gill, Helena Goldwater, Joy Gregory, Margaret Harrison, Alexis Hunter, Frances Kearney, EJ Major, Eleanor Moreton, Hayley Newman, Freddie Robins, Monica Ross, Jo Spence, Jessica Voorsanger, Alice May Williams and Carey Young 

Collyer Bristow Gallery, Holborn, London, 2nd July – 21st October, 2015
Private view 1st July, 2015

Works by over 20 women artists will reflect the changes in art practice within the context of sexual and gender equality since the introduction of the Sex Discrimination Act (1975) in the UK. Some artists confront issues that galvanised the change in law whilst others carved their own place in a complex and male dominated art world. From the radical movements of the 1960s and 70s, the politics of the 80s, the boom of lad culture in the 1990s to the current fourth wave of feminism, encouraged largely through and because of social media, all of the artists’ question equality and identity in very different ways. 

The exhibition presents a snapshot of the evolving conversations that continue to contribute to the mapping of a woman’s place in British society. Body, femininity, sex, motherhood, economic and political status are explored through contemporary film, sculpture, performance and painting.

This exhibition is part of A Woman's Place project.