We pride ourselves on our unique and inventive programme of more than monthly events: we gain access to an eclectic mix of studio visits, curator and artist-led tours of both large and small scale exhibitions of women artists, and private tours of art fairs. Patrons events are always very special and include private tours of collections of women artists or collections formed by women. Recent highlights include in conversations with artists Faith Ringgold and Chantal Joffe, a visit to a major private collection of English and South American art, a private tour of Dorothea Tanning at Tate Modern with curator Dr Alyce Mahon and a trip to Paris to join the Paris Committee’s tour of Woman House.
In 2017, in collaboration with NMWA and Whitechapel Gallery, we organized and sponsored the exhibition Terrains of the Body at the Whitechapel Gallery. It featured video and photographs of seventeen women artists from the museum’s collection including Marina Abramović, Nan Goldin, Mwangi Hutter, Nikki S. Lee, Shirin Neshat and Adriana Varejão. Read more under “What We Support”
UK Friends of NMWA embraces NMWA’s Women Arts and Social Change programme and our leaders participate in panel discussions with the aim of working out solutions to achieve gender parity in the arts. Recent discussions include Align at RCA and More than Muses at National Gallery.
The listings feature of this website publicises exhibitions by women artists in London and beyond.
We are delighted to have made some extraordinary gifts to the museum’s permanent collection to celebrate various milestones our and the museum’s history, including Elisabeth Frink’s New Bird II, Rose Wylie’s Lords and Ladies, and Cornelia Parker’s Thirty Pieces of Silver (Exhaled), 2003. Read more under “What We Support.”