Wonderful to be invited to The Womens Art library safely housed in Goldsmiths University. They have acquired all three of my monographs and i couldn’t be more delighted to see them housed in the archive along with Helen Chadwick. Lubaina Himid, Gillian Wearing amongst hundreds of women artists that i’ve been inspired by along the way..

The Women’s Art Library began as the Women Artists Slide Library, an artists’ initiative that developed into an arts organization publishing catalogues and books as well as a magazine from early 1983 to 2002. WAL collected slides, ephemera and other art documentation from artists and actively documented exhibitions and historical collections to offer a public space to view and experience women’s art. Thousands of artists from around the world are represented in some form in this collection.

I loved was the analogue files putting the artists work in context so i will now be delivering related articles, catalogues and online interviews relating to the work. I hadn’t thought about was the flimsy nature of digital archives which can so easily disappear. The link for an article i loved is no longer available but after conversations with WAL i tracked down the writer Barry Hughes and he sent me a new link. Misconceptions of the male gaze  if you’d like to take a read . I’ve also made a paper copy for my own archive. An incredibly inspiring day out i’ll be back to research future work.