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The Essay: New Generation Thinkers 2023: What does feminist art mean?

What does feminist art mean?

New Generation Thinkers 2023

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Ana Baeza Ruiz shares reflections from artists in the 70s women's liberation movement.

New Generation Thinker Ana Baeza Ruiz reflects on what it means to put feminist art on gallery walls and how we might think beyond the art canon.

Who's Holding the Baby? was the title of an exhibition organised to highlight a lack of childcare provision in East London in the 1970s.  Was this feminist art? Bobby Baker, Sonia Boyce, Rita Keegan and members of the photography collective Hackney Flashers are some of the artists who've been taking part in an oral history project with New Generation Thinker Ana Baeza Ruiz.  Her essay presents some of their reflections on what it means to make art and call yourself a feminist. 

Dr Ana Baeza Ruiz is the Research Associate for the project Feminist Art Making Histories (FAMH) at Loughborough University and a New Generation Thinker on the scheme run by the BBC and the AHRC to showcase new research into the humanities.  You can hear her in Free Thinking episodes on Portraits and Women, art and activism available as an Arts & Ideas podcast.

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The Essay: New Generation Thinkers 2023

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The latest crop of New Generation Thinkers stretch their broadcasting wings.

The latest crop of New Generation Thinkers, the scheme run by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Council which turns research into radio, stretch their broadcasting wings.

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