WHAT’S ON
The Drop-Off: From Education to Art World
March, 2025
Maison Pan, 6-11 Suffolk St, SW1Y 4HG
"The act of creating is the act of becoming. Women's education in the arts is an act of revolutionary becoming." — Bell Hooks
The Drop-Off: From Education to Art World is a group exhibition featuring six artists from the Fé Collective. The exhibition opens a space to consider the chasm between art school to art world; a space where there is a drastic drop-off of female artists. According to Dr Kate McMillan in the Freelands Foundation 2020 report, in the year 2019-2020 there were 73% of creative post-graduates were female, and in the year prior 68% of artists represented in major London commercial galleries are men. This exhibition navigates the space between education and art world and why there is a drop-off of female artists.
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Maison Pan, 6-11 Suffolk St, SW1Y 4HG
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The Drop-off: From Education to Art World
March, 2025
Maison Pan, 6-11 Suffolk St, SW1Y 4HG
The exhibition opens a space to consider the chasm between art school and the art world; a space where there is a drastic drop-off of female artists. According to the Freelands Foundation’s 2020 report, 73% of creative postgraduates in 2019-2020 were women, yet 68% of artists represented in major London commercial galleries are men.