When Linsey Young, the curator of Tate Britain's new exhibition Women in Revolt!, paid a visit to the artist Margaret Harrison, to ask her to be involved, she was told: “it’s impossible, but that’s no reason not to try.”Women in Revolt! is an enormously complex show. It attempts, through the work of more than 100 individuals and collectives, to grapple with the breadth of feminist art made in Britain between 1970 and 1990. Consequently it contains too much to properly consume within one visit.
It’s uneven, it’s demanding, and it even sprawls out into the garden, where Bobby Baker’s An Edible Family in a Mobile Home creates parents and kids in cake and biscuits, in a domestic space plastered with 1970s comics, newspapers and magazines.
