Panelists:

– Professor Sussan Babaie, Professor in the Arts of Iran and Islam, The Courtauld Institute of Art

– Dr Kate McMillan, FHEA, Lecturer in Contemporary Arts, Kings College London

– Director Niamh Coghlan, Richard Saltoun Gallery

We discussed:

– defining sexism

– maternity

– being a parent in the creative industry

– why art by a woman is valued lower then art by a man

– the small things that add up over time

– discrimination

– quotas

– unconscious bias

– the value of personal narratives

– the invisible labor

– gender equal pay

– gender equal maternity leave

– gender as a form of oppression

– universal basic income

People + Places mentioned:

100% Women – https://www.richardsaltoun.com/exhibitions/70/overview/

Freelands Foundation Report, Representation of Female Artists in Britain – https://freelandsfoundation.co.uk/research-and-publications/annual-report-representation-of-female-artists-in-britain/

Sadie Coles HQ – https://www.sadiecoles.com

Maureen Paley – https://www.maureenpaley.com

David Zwirner – https://www.davidzwirner.com

Everlyn Nicodemus – https://www.richardsaltoun.com/artists/326-everlyn-nicodemus/biography/

Bob Law – https://www.richardsaltoun.com/artists/58-bob-law/biography/

Barbican Centre – https://www.barbican.org.uk

Christopher Bedford, Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) – https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/baltimore-museum-of-art-director-defends-diversity-goals-that-his-institution-hoped-to-meet-through-art-sales

Thank you to Natalie Lennard for the use of her photograph

https://www.birthundisturbed.com

Audio editing by Jakub Černý

Music by Peat Biby

Hosted by Matthew Dols

Supported in part by:

EEA Grants from Iceland, Liechtenstein + Norway

https://eeagrants.org

and we appreciate the assistance of our partners in this project:

Hunt Kastner – https://huntkastner.com

Kunstsentrene i Norge – https://www.kunstsentrene.no

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