Owning the room: Bodies and power in feminist art practice
Free, booking essential
Duration: 45 minutes including audience Q&A
Join Lucina Ward, Senior Curator International Art, for a floor talk considering how leading women artists in the 20th and 21st centuries have used the body in their work to assert politics, gender and identity.
This art talk celebrates the opening of the exhibition, Deep inside my heart, which brings together sculpture, drawing and performance-based works in the national collection, including several new acquisitions displayed for the first time.
Artists: Kiki Smith, Nancy Spero, Louise Bourgeois, Tracey Emin, Bronwyn Oliver, Sarah Lucas, I Gusti Ayu Kadek Murniasih, Lynda Benglis, and Ana Mendieta.
Deep inside my heart is on display in Gallery 15 until 19 May 2024.