One speaker obviously knew many statistics about the differences between what women and men get paid, and the difficulties of being an architectural artist who happens to be female. The next speaker was speaking English as a foreign language, so was speaking via a translator, and had done feminist artwork but did not appear to be talking about Curating Gender. Some of the questions from the floor were just bleating about how hard it is to be a female artist (it's hard for all artists) and another was a young student who wanted to know how to make it big, quick. There was comment about how women always get lower fees than men, and one of the men (a former music promoted, now art promoter) said "make better art" which went down like a lead balloon. I would modify his comment to "make more commercial art". If people want to make a profit at art, then the customer needs to be prepared to pay for it, and it needs to appeal to a wider, richer, market. However, as I am making art to understand my world (rather than earn my living at it) then his comment about 'better' art is inapt.
But nothing about the issues curators have when taking gender into account. £16 entry, and a lot of travelling to learn nothing.
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| Panel - Curating Gender |
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