Edited by Natalie Rudd, Melanie Veasey and Rosamund Lily West, this special issue of the Sculpture Journal featured six papers on women sculptors.
Published by Liverpool University Press in March 2023 this edition was the culmination of a two-year research project, ‘Pioneering Women at the Heart of the Royal Society of Sculptors’, funded by the Paul Mellon Centre in London.
My contribution is entitled: Strength in unity: post-war sculpture in the Women’s International Art Club, 1950-1970
(The article is not open access. If you would like a copy please contact me – details on the Contact page)
Other papers include:
Natalie Rudd, Melanie Veasey and Rosamund Lily West: Introduction
Louise Marchal: Reform, nonconformists and the press: the role of women’s suffrage networks in the early sculpture commissions of Frances Darlington
Eva Belgherbi: Crossing borders: researching British women sculptors in Paris in the late nineteenth century
Isabelle Jain: Born on the bombsite: reconstruction and the maternal body in Beth Jukes’s The Cradle (1949)
Diane V. Silverthorne: Giving voice to Anna Mahler, sculptor in exile