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134. WOMEN IN REVOLT! Tate Britain’s new exhibition with curator Linsey Young and artist Marlene Smith

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‘Women in Revolt!’ is an important and exciting new exhibition featuring work by over 100 feminist artists created between 1970 and 1990. Alongside work by well-known artists is work rarely seen before, by women who have been marginalised or left outside the artistic narrative. With us to tell us all about the exhibition are Linsey Young, Curator of British Contemporary Art at Tate Britain since 2016, and British artist and curator, Marlene Smith, a key figure in the British Black Arts movement.  

We discover what drove Linsey to mount this exhibition and why it’s been arranged in chronological order, beginning with the first National Women’s Liberation Conference in Oxford and the Miss World Protests and ending during the Thatcher administration.

This is a furiously vibrant, joyful, exciting and explosive exhibition that shows how women artists changed the face of British culture, paving the way for a new generation. Not to be missed!

‘Women in Revolt! Art and Activism in the UK 1970-1990’ at Tate Britain until April 2024