What if you are a female sculptor?

Sculpture Network’s Online Club

Monday 29 January 2024 20.00 CET

What challenges do female sculptors have? How is their work received? How to combine motherhood with making art? Did the feminist movement improve the situation for female artists in the past 30 years?

Join us for the talk of artist Lorna Green UK about the socio-economic position of female sculptors in the UK between 1989 and 2022. Her 1989 research has been updated, and has led to exhibitions in Museum Hepworth Wakefield and Saatchi Gallery.

In 1992, artist and organisor Ute Hartwig-Schulz DE co-founded Künstlergut Prösitz. This residency in Sachsen DE offers young female sculptors with children the opportunity to make art, and helps them with publicity. 

Join our Zoom Meeting on Monday, 29 January, 20.00 CEST.

Please register with the orange button "Register!" on the lefthand corner of this page to receive the link to the Zoom meeting.

After the lectures get together and networking in smaller groups. The event will be held in English. Participation is free of charge, all you need is a PC, tablet or smartphone with an internet connection. Curating and moderation by curator Anne Berk.

Feminist research and two shows

Have generations of women been affected differently over the past 30 years? What possibilities do female artists have? Are there persistent barriers, such as motherhood, and inequalities? Are there any changes in the choice of materials?

Hepworth’s Progeny: Generation of Women in Sculpture in Britain, 1960 – 2022 is a feminist research project hosted by The Hepworth Wakefield in partnership with art historian Griselda Pollock and sculptor Lorna Green and the researchers Dr Anna Frances Douglas and Dr Kerry Harker.

The project revisits original research into women’s sculptural practices undertaken in the late 1980s by Green, The Position and Attitudes of Contemporary Women Sculptors in Britain 1987-9, as the basis of a present day comparative study.

The exhibitions in Hepworth Wakefield and Saatchi Gallery, featuring remarkable female sculptors from the 1960s to now, explored time as an everyday lived experience marked by the evolving cycles directly affecting women.

Symposium Künstlergut Prösitz is a unique program in Germany, offering women artists with children a one-month scholarship to work in the fields of sculpture, installation and object art. The artist house is based in a small Saxon village, and was established by sculpture graduates of Dresden University of Fine Arts who had personally experienced the difficulty of trying to pursue an artistic career as a woman with young children.

The symposium is open to artists Europe-wide, offering them a scholarship of 500 euros, accommodation and childcare services (up to 12 years old). At the end of the scholarship period, a group exhibition and catalog are also produced.