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Celia Paul and Stephanie Radok have devoted their lives to making art – and writing about it

Women artists have always struggled to maintain an art practice as the primary focus of their lives. Going it alone, they’ve needed to contrive ways to survive, or accept that with commitment to a human “other” comes domestic concerns – and very likely, the demands of motherhood.

The Conversation · Dec 23, 2025

The daring women artists of last century were often sidelined as muses. A new book celebrates their brilliance

When I first studied art history in the late 1960s, all artists were men. It seemed, back then, that the act of rendering an image in line and colour, or visualising pure emotion, was confined to the gender that controlled society at the time.

The Conversation · Oct 15, 2025

Drusilla Modjeska: ‘How easy it is that we can live in the sunshine and not see the shadow’

In her new book, the Australian author of Exiles at Home and Stravinsky’s Lunch returns to examine how female artists have fought for creative freedom

The Guardian - AU · Sep 28, 2025