Women Artists and Architects in Film
This talk, from Professor Maggie Andrews of the cinema education team, uses the recent release of ‘War Paint: Women at War’ (2025) and ‘E.1027 - Eileen Gray and the House by the Sea’ (2024) as stimuli to interrogate cinema’s portrayal of women artists and architects, groups which have been increasingly celebrated in recent years.
Whilst biopics, such as ‘Frida’ (2002), ‘Helene’ and ‘Tove’ (both 2020) rescue women from obscurity, they do so by focusing on the complexity of their personal lives, rather than their artistic significance.
Equally problematically, the selective narratives in films such as ‘Maudie’ (2016) and ‘Charlotte’ (2021) skate over domestic and sexual abuse to create comfortable narratives of women’s artistic contribution to national and ethnic histories and identities.
Alternatively, fictional dramas such as ‘Nightbitch’ (2024) and ‘Where'd You Go Bernadette’ (2019) suggest women’s creativity may ultimately be fuelled by the constraints of motherhood, marriage and men.
100m inc Q&A
Tickets £7.50 (In the Auditorium)
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Talk in conjunction with the film:
WAR PAINT: WOMEN AT WAR
SPECIAL OFFER:
FILM & TALK ONLY £15
