Another amazing year for female artists. So why are they still stifled and impoverished?
Hettie Judah, The Guardian
December 2022
It has been a fine year for looking at, hearing and smelling work by women artists. My highlights of the last 12 months include violent installations by Cornelia Parker; featherlight knotted wire sculptures by Ruth Asawa; old textile scraps animated by family bonds in the hands of Louise Bourgeois; Carolee Schneemann’s daring performances of sexuality, gender and sickness; Magdalena Abakanowicz’s fleshy woven sculptures; Allison Katz’s cerebral paintings; tapestries and tussocky mounds of coloured fibre by Sheila Hicks; and Vivian Maier’s sly street photographs.There have been moments of triumph. Last week Veronica Ryan was announced as winner of the Turner prize from an all-female and non-binary shortlist. […]