At the same time that Jacob's Island gallery have just put on an exhibition of contemporary artists' work about war, featuring 14 men and 0 women...
Tomorrow East London Fawcett (ELF) will be launching the results of the Art Audit, a year-long survey of the position of women in today's art world, at Calvert 22. The full results will be published on ELF'sAudit website tomorrow and the Guardian are running a story on the campaign tomorrow morning.
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East London Fawcett (ELF) is the East London branch of the Fawcett Society – the UK’s leading campaign for equality between women and men. ELF organises talks, parties, arts events, sporting activities and much more. In its varied and positive approach to equality, ELF is 21st century activism for women and men who believe in progress, and who want to be a part of an exciting and ever expanding network of diverse, interesting and culturally engaged individuals in East London. The group is open to all and membership is free.
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Tomorrow East London Fawcett (ELF) will be launching the results of the Art Audit, a year-long survey of the position of women in today's art world, at Calvert 22. The full results will be published on ELF'sAudit website tomorrow and the Guardian are running a story on the campaign tomorrow morning.
- Join ELF at Calvert 22 for the launch of the Art Audit results
- Friday 24th May 7 – 9pm, 22 Calvert Avenue, London, E2 7JP
- For further press enquiries please contact press@eastlondonfawcett.org.uk
The Great East London Art Audit was launched by East London Fawcett (ELF) in the Spring of 2012. The intention of the campaign is to raise awareness of the gender imbalance that persists within London’s galleries, and to celebrate those women who are defying the statistics and the galleries that support them. The event on Friday 24th May will mark the culmination of a year’s worth of work from a dedicated team of volunteer campaigners, researchers and statisticians. The body of up-to-date statistics generated by the team will reflect the representation of women in today’s art world, and will hopefully provide an objective basis for future discourse on women in the arts.
The launch will form part of Calvert 22’s month-long exhibition and events programme comprising talks, workshops, screenings and new commissions. Fostering conversations on subjects such as how histories are written and recorded in print and on screen ‘…how is it towards the east?’ is partially an opportunity to critically examine modes of self-organisation within the arts. Over the past year, the audit campaign has demonstrated the power of self-motivation and campaigning that is both passionate and sensitive. With invitations to host events at Shoreditch House, the Zabludowicz Collection and Sprüth Magers amongst others, and a press campaign that has led to features in publications including Time Out and The Huffington Post, the campaign is illustrative of the impact of positive feminist campaigning today.
Following an introduction from ELF Arts Director Gemma Rolls-Bentley, the audit team will unveil and explain their results and offer a series of short presentations on what motivates ELF, how the campaign has been organised and what they hope to achieve by releasing these results. The informal structure of the evening will allow for an open dialogue around the findings of the Art Audit.
The event is free and open to all, please email events@eastlondonfawcett.org.uk to register.
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The Calvert 22 Foundation was founded in 2009, and is dedicated to building cultural bridges between Russia, Eastern Europe, the former Soviet republics and the rest of the world. It seeks to foster dialogue and encourage a global reappraisal of the culture of this part of the world, independent of governmental dictates or commercial interests. This commitment to dialogue and cultural exchange across creative disciplines and national boundaries, from both within and outside the mainstream lies at the heart of all the Foundation’s partnerships and enterprises.
Further reading:
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- Amnesty put on music/comedy fundraiser for global free speech, with 30 men (29 white, 1 non-white) and 3 women
- The boys' club, old and new
- Casual sexism is just misogyny
- Literary women, literary prizes
- Shut up ladies, can't you see we're trying to talk? Women and radio
- We want to hear ourselves think: a call to action against cultural femicide
- Gender bias in books journalism remains acute [Guardian report - not by me]