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Is this world-class, free gallery Cambridge’s best-kept secret?

Maggi Hambling, Paula Rego, Bridget Riley … Murray Edwards College houses the Women’s Art Collection, featuring some of the industry’s biggest names from the last 40 years

The Guardian - UK · Sep 17

Paula Rego’s Story Line – an exhibition that invites exploration of the ambiguous narratives the Portuguese artist drew

At first glance, these look like sketches – the kind artists make on the way to something more finished. But that expectation doesn’t quite hold. The drawings assert themselves: restless, unresolved, and often more direct than the paintings they eventually lead to. This is Story Line, the latest exhibition of…

The Conversation · May 15

Paula Rego review – tantalising drawings with the shoeprints left on them

Mischievous, moving and troubled tales of female oppression unspool across the largest ever exhibition of the artist’s drawings, which show an intuitive touch her paintings lack

The Guardian - UK · Apr 16

That’s all folk: Marina Warner, the curator and mythographer creating a space for stories

Shadow puppets, otherworldly masks, taxidermy dioramas, from Greek epics to the Brothers Grimm: a new exhibition celebrates the fantastical tales that have passed through countries and cultures

The Guardian - UK · Oct 23, 2025

The Heat review – Paula Rego’s dog women inhabit Becky Namgauds’ frisky, feral dance-theatre

The choreographer’s unapologetic depiction of female instincts fills a suburban living room with surreal scenes of suppressed sexuality and rage

The Guardian - UK · May 23, 2025

‘When a woman needs more than ever to take care of herself, she is pulled away in two directions’: Diana Evans on the ‘sandwich generation’

Work has always been central to the novelist’s existence. So what happened when she found herself caring for her elderly mother and two children – and suddenly unable to write?

The Guardian - UK · Jan 25, 2025

In Attendance: Paying Attention in a Fragile World review – visions of mortality abound

In a former hospital chapel replete with its own stories, works by Paula Rego, Phyllida Barlow and others resonate in their exquisitely contemplative surroundings

The Guardian - UK · Jan 12, 2025

There’s nothing meek or mild about childbirth: why have male artists sanitised the Virgin Mary?

She may be the most painted woman in history, almost always portrayed as subservient, pure, chaste – and never actually giving birth. Thank goodness female artists like Paula Rego and Esther Strauss provided a reality check

The Guardian - UK · Dec 20, 2024

Rachel Reeves swaps Nigel Lawson portrait for one of Labour MP ‘Red Ellen’

Chancellor has previously pledged to ensure all art in No 11 is either by female artists or of female figures

The Guardian - UK · Oct 30, 2024

Uncanny Visions: Rego and Goya review – it’s Little Miss Muffet vs the horrors of war

Goya’s disturbing etchings, full of terrors plucked from the edge of the abyss, leave Rego’s mildly subversive Nursery Rhymes looking like superficial sketches

The Guardian - UK · Sep 26, 2024