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Tate British Art Network Bid Success
Posted on 23 July 2015
Tate's British Art Network will be establishing three network sub groups in 2015/16 to focus on specific areas of British art, supported by Arts Council England, and two of these sub groups involve academics from the department.
Katie Tyreman Herrington's sub group British Women Artists, 1750-1950 will focus on women’s artistic production in a variety of mediums. For the last two decades a number of feminist scholars and curators have stressed and deplored the neglect of, and sought to make more visible, the work of British female artists of this period, but there is still a relative lack of knowledge about these women compared to their male counterparts which forms a barrier to the display of these women’s works. The aim of this sub group is to provide sustained knowledge exchange between university-based scholars and museum/gallery-based curators/researchers with the intention of bringing about the conception of leading new scholarship and exhibition projects that will make women’s art works more visible and better understood than hitherto possible.
The funding will support two meetings of scholars and curators/researchers actively working on British female artists of the period in question and the creation of a website hub that will enable knowledge sharing between members of the sub group and the development of potential collaborative projects.
Richard Johns has collaborated with Lydia Hamlett (University of Cambridge) and Brett Dolman (Historic Royal Palaces), who will be leading the group, to bring together the British Mural Painting sub group. The funding will allow a network of academic art historians, curators and conservators to come together with a shared interest in wall and ceiling painting - an under-researched and often overlooked field of British art.
Many congratulations to Katie and Richard!