A new art fair celebrating women’s contribution to art and presenting both leading and emerging women artists opens at Mall Galleries 11- 14 October 2023
Women in Art Fair is a new initiative dedicated to redressing the gender imbalance in the art industry. The inaugural fair takes place this October at Mall Galleries, London.
WIAF’s mission is to create a positive global platform from which female artists, curators and gallerists are given an opportunity to show their work, and contribute to the developing exchange of ideas around gender, sexuality and culture.
WIAF will occupy all three spaces at Mall Galleries (totaling 450sqm). The West Gallery will house a 21-booth art fair, the East Gallery a curated exhibition, and the North Gallery an exhibition of work by artists selected via an Open Call.
The East Gallery exhibition, titled Unnatural Women focuses on work by female artists that explores our ambivalent relationship with ‘the natural world’. A mix of figurative and semi-abstract painting, sculpture, 3D and print, the show combines ‘traditional female’ craft such as textiles with ‘traditional male’ craft including technological work, to make visitors question our understanding of wilderness and landscape. Curated by artist and editor Rowena Easton , the show features celebrated women artists such as Paula Rego and Marcelle Hanselaar alongside established and mid-career women artists such as Abigail Norris, Olivia Bullock and Geraldine Swayne .
