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Women in focus
Rosie Millard looks as two projects about women’s art.
A series of shows including both delicate photogravures of wild Yorkshire landscapes and gutsy portraits delivering ‘An Ode to Peter Lilley’, Signals, the first festival of women photographers, was nothing if not eclectic. Running throughout September and October and incorporating work as varied as ‘Edwardian Women Photographers’ at the National Portrait Gallery and pictures of women truck drivers at the North Shields People’s Centre in Tyneside, Signals was remarkable for using an unprecedented number of galleries to show work from an unprecedented number of women photographers. An estimated 500 galleries across the British Isles took part in the festival; each showing on average thirty photographs. “That’s about 12,000 photographs in all,” says Ruth Charity from the Photographer’s Gallery in London, who was on the steering committee. “We simply wrote to galleries up and down the country, asking if they would like to participate; the idea was to have a celebration of women’s achievement in photography.” And celebration it certainly was; from landscape supremo Fay Godwin to photo-journalist Inge Morath and innovators such...
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