We meet a once famous artist just as she is being promised a comeback after a 10-year slump. Catherine (Mary Rose) is a feminist icon and former YBA who gallerist Christian (Danny Charles) wants to “rediscover”. She is tasked with curating a group exhibition of the nation’s most important female artists, though he mumbles concern over prospective attacks by the media for “wokeness”.
Writer and director Mary Swan certainly knows her subject matter: there are mentions of Charles Saatchi and “Damien” while Catherine’s nonchalance brings Tracey Emin to mind (she is also name-checked). We are even given a fictional catalogue for Catherine’s group exhibition – evidence of the knowledge and attention to detail with which this show has been conceived.
