Mapping the Context: In Conversation with Griselda Pollock and Sutapa Biswas

Categorised: Art and the Women’s Movement in the UK 1970–1988

Tagged: Art and the Women's Movement in the UK 1970–1988

This discussion sets the context and frames some of the key research questions for a new research group on art and the women’s movement, mapping connections between art, exhibition making and activism during the 1970s and 1980s.

Griselda Pollock and Sutapa Biswas are pivotal figures in the development of feminist art history and art practice. Pollock joined the faculty at the University of Leeds in 1977 where she pioneered a feminist revisioning of the Art History curriculum that reshaped the story of art. Biswas joined the Fine Art department at Leeds as a student in 1981 and in turn her visionary practice convinced Pollock to deepen her own work to consider issues of race and colonialism alongside those of class and gender.

Speakers

Griselda Pollock, Emeritus Professor, History of Art and Cultural Studies, The University of Leeds

Sutapa Biswas, Artist, Reader in Fine Art, Manchester School of Art

Linsey Young, Curator of British Contemporary Art, Tate Britain

Zuzana Flaskova, Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Tate Britain