"So few art books deal with women – in 2012 it was less than 3 percent – but this isn’t just a question of what’s happening in publishing or the art world, it has an impact on what will define our future historical record." Harriet Judd, founder of Eiderdown Books

Five authors, who have written on Sylvia Pankhurst, Frances Hodgkins, Marlow Moss, Laura Knight and Lee Miller, introduce the lives of these artists and consider the work we still have to do in order to make the names and artistic achievements of female artists better known.

Speakers for the evening are Ami Bouhassane, Lucy Howarth, Samantha Niederman, Katy Norris and Alice Strickland – all curators, researchers, archivists and specialists in their fields. Book signings with the speakers will take place after the talk as part of the launch of Eiderdown Books - a new independent press specialising in art books about women artists.

Author bios:

Ami Bouhassane is co-director of Farleys House & Gallery Ltd, the organisation that manages the Lee Miller Archives, the Penrose Collection and Farleys House, home of her grandparents Lee Miller and Roland Penrose.

Lucy Howarth completed her PhD thesis on Marlow Moss in 2008, and, co- curated the Moss display, which toured from Tate St Ives, to Leeds Art Gallery, the Jerwood Gallery in Hastings and Tate Britain 2013–15. She was consultant curator for the 2017 Moss exhibition at Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zürich. Lucy Howarth currently runs a contemporary art project space in Margate.

Samantha Niederman is a PhD candidate at the University of York, and her research examines the Romantic Modernist pictorial language of Frances Hodgkins and Cedric Morris. Prior to this, she was Curatorial Assistant at the Norton Museum of Art, contributing research and assisting with O’Keeffe, Stettheimer, Torr, Zorach: Women Modernists in New York.

Katy Norris is a postgraduate researcher, working in partnership with Tate and Bristol University on a Collaborative Doctoral Award, focusing on Edwardian women artists. Previously the Curator at Pallant House Gallery, she has curated exhibitions on various themes in Modern British Art. Publications include Sickert in Dieppe and Christopher Wood.

Alice Strickland is a curator for the National Trust in London and the South East. Her doctorate considered British women war artists of the Second World War and she has been awarded a Paul Mellon research grant for a publication on women war artists of the First World War.