A great historical imbalance in Australia’s art world, the invisibility of female artists, is about to change massively and the change will be impossible to ignore.
Sally Smart knows. She’s been there. If you have only a passing familiarity with the art world you might not know her name but Smart is a contemporary artist of the first rank. Her Exquisite Pirate collage, where canvas and fabric pirate ships with jewelled female pirates sailed along white-walled galleries, exhibited from New York to Shanghai.
For those who don’t know her name, that’s precisely the point. A great historical imbalance in the art world, the invisibility of female artists, is about to change massively and the change will be impossible for anyone to ignore.
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