The Guerrilla Girls are anonymous artist activists who use disruptive headlines, outrageous visuals and killer statistics to expose gender and ethnic bias and corruption in art, film, politics and pop culture. They believe in an intersectional feminism that fights for human rights for all people and all genders. They undermine the idea if a mainstream narrative by revealing the understory, the subtext, the overlooked, and the downright unfair. Guerrilla Girls: The Art of Behaving Badly is the first book to document their hundreds of street projects all over the world asSEE DETAILS 

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PART 2Jennie Klein is a professor of art history at Ohio University. She is the co-editor, along with Myrel Chernick, of The M Word: Real Mothers in Contemporary Art, published in 2011. In 2014 she and Chernick chaired TFAP@CAA Day of Panels, which was also themed around maternity and motherhood. She has recently published several essay on art and the maternal, including “Feminist Art and Motherhood: An Overview,” in The Routledge Companion to Motherhood, “Maternal Metaphors I and II: a labor of motherlove” in The Maternal in Creative Work, bothSEE DETAILS 

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Jennie Klein is a professor of art history at Ohio University. She is the co-editor, along with Myrel Chernick, of The M Word: Real Mothers in Contemporary Art, published in 2011. In 2014 she and Chernick chaired TFAP@CAA Day of Panels, which was also themed around maternity and motherhood. She has recently published several essay on art and the maternal, including “Feminist Art and Motherhood: An Overview,” in The Routledge Companion to Motherhood, “Maternal Metaphors I and II: a labor of motherlove” in The Maternal in Creative Work, both co-authoredSEE DETAILS 

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Emma’s work often focusses on honesty, action and a playfully destructive DIY aesthetic using materials with different transformative properties – such as water, clay, earth, salt and ink – to create strong visual imagery which is often messy, intense and celebratory. In recent years, her work has been focussed on the None of Us is Yet a Robot project, a series of performance pieces recently published by Oberon Books as “None of Us is Yet a Robot – Five Performances on Gender Identity and the Politics of Transition”.In 2013 EmmaSEE DETAILS 

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Shirley Cameron is an artist whose work covers 6 decades.Shirley studied sculpture at Central Saint Martins College with Anthony Caro as her tutor’ Whilst studying there Shirley met Roland Miller, who at that time was travelling with The People Show theatre company.For almost 20 years they travelled together becoming principal figures in the development of Performance Art in British alternative theatre between 1968 and 1988. Cameron was one of the first artists to include her children in  her work. in 1977, she performed ‘Washing the Twins’ at the IV InternationalSEE DETAILS 

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Hermione Wiltshire studied Sculpture at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London, at BA level followed by an MA at Chelsea School of Art. In 1993, Hermione Wiltshire was a Momart Fellow at the Tate Gallery Liverpool, where she spent six months carrying out a residency followed by an exhibition at the Tate gallery Liverpool called Elective Affinities. She was also a scholar at the British School of Rome and returned often to Rome and Naples to complete several major series of works. Hermione is a Senior Lecturer in theSEE DETAILS 

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Through leading seminars, curating panels, and consulting services, Women Picturing Revolution (WPR) co-creators Lesly Deschler Canossi and Zoraida Lopez-Diago are reclaiming and retelling history in a manner that is both radical and necessary. By highlighting the work of female photographers who have documented conflicts, crises, and revolution in private realms and public spaces, WPR sheds light on personal and political experiences that are often overlooked or underrepresented. From fine art photography made as a response to forced silence, oppression, and the inability to act, to well-known visual journalists documenting upheaval, Lesly and Zoraida, along withSEE DETAILS 

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[md_text md_text_title1=”pixflow_base64IA==” md_text_title_separator=”no”]In Episode 6  we have invited artist Melissa Mostyn to join our monthly chat.Melissa has enjoyed a portfolio career as an artist, writer and film-maker for over twenty years, adopting a variety of roles for Shape, Maverick Television, Disability Arts Online, Deafnitely Theatre, Architecture Week South- East, Tate and V&A. Before having children, for five years Melissa led a groundbreaking Deaf visual art project, Salon, funded by Arts Council England and the Esme Fairbairn Foundation, and had journalism published in The Independent, Esquire and Vogue. Since becoming aSEE DETAILS 

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 For subtitled version please see belowImage Credits:1. Great & Tiny War, Bobby Baker, 2018. Image © Daily Life Ltd.  2. Ordinary Heaven, Bobby Baker, 2018, part of Great & Tiny War (Room 2, 1915 / 2015). Photo by Andrew Whittuck, 2018  3. Britannia, Bobby Baker, 2018, part of Great & Tiny War (Room 1, 1914 / 2014). Photo by Andrew Whittuck, 20184. An Edible Family in a Mobile Home, Bobby Baker, Stepney, London, 1976. Photo by Andrew Whittuck, 19765. Displaying the Sunday Dinner, Bobby Baker, 1998. Photo by Andrew Whittuck.6. Photographic documentationSEE DETAILS 

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