The gallery's also working towards a more equal permanent collection, starting with its biggest female art commission yet – this big guy, Skywhalepapa by Patricia Piccinini. We need to spend time to appreciate their art and to know their names.
The gallery decided it wasn't and created this exhibition called 'Know My Name', featuring the work of women artists from 1900 to now, from paintings by Grace Crowley to these life-size sculptures by the Tjanpi Desert Weavers and Fiona Hall's birds' nests made from shredded US dollars.Īnnika: We need to change our perspective and to have a look back at all of the wonderful women artists who might have been overlooked. That really shocked us and, I mean, I think, if you ask yourselves, 'Is that fair?'
Over the years, female artists have fought to change people's attitudes, but there's still a long way to go, as the National Gallery found out when it looked at its own collection.Īnnika: Of the 100,000 works of art that we care for in the Australian art collection, only 25 per cent, or one-quarter, were by women artists. that they were allowed to work with.įor a long time, it wasn't socially acceptable for women to go to bars, cafés and theatres alone, which were popular scenes to paint, and their work was often overlooked or excluded from popular galleries.Īmelia: And does that mean that we've been potentially missing out on a female Van Gogh or, you know, these incredible artists that we might have had? When they did, they might be put into different classes or restricted in the materials and the subjects that they. And while women were the subject of many paintings, female painters often weren't welcome at the great art academies of Europe, partly because they weren't allowed to see nude male models – a common way to learn to paint people.Īnnika: A lot of art schools didn't welcome women in the past. The type of art they often did create wasn't taken as seriously. They have! But for women in many societies throughout history, being recognised as an artist has been a lot trickier.Īnnika: In the past, women were more confined to the home, doing domestic labour, raising children. The last century of visual culture has seen the female body become a passive creative object used to benefit advertising, art, commerce and pornography, largely by and for men. It's not that women haven't been making great art for hundreds, even thousands and thousands, of years. Most people across Australia might have a bit of trouble with that.Īnnika is an artist educator here at the National Gallery of Australia, which is on a mission to teach us some new names.Īnnika: Some of those really famous names that you might be familiar with – you know, Picasso, Jackson Pollock – these men's names dominate the history books, but those history books were also written by men. I wonder if you could name five women artists. It does not store any personal data.Da Vinci, Monet, Van Gogh, Picasso – they're some of the world's most famous artists, but I wonder if you noticed that all of those names belonged to men.Īnnika: Well, I have a question for you, Amelia.
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