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Mary Dawson Elwell
Mary Dawson Elwell (née Mary Dawson Bishop) was a talented female artist with a passion for music and travel. Born in Derbyshire in 1874, she was raised in Manchester and attended the progressive Ellerslie Ladies College where she studied art and music among other things. In 1896, she married the
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The London Dyke Deck
What's in a name? In Stung with Love, I examined the difference between the terms sapphic and lesbian. These look back 2500 years to the poet Sappho who lived on the island of Lesbos. In contrast, the term dyke is relatively recent. First used about 100 years ago,
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The 80s: Photographing Britain
I visited The 80s: Photographing Britain at the Tate Gallery in 2025. This is how the Tate website describes the exhibition: Explore one of the UK’s most critical decades, the 1980s. This exhibition traces the work of a diverse community of photographers, collectives and publications – creating radical responses to
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Manchester Art Gallery
Manchester Art Gallery is located in a building on the corner of Mosley Street and Princess Street. It opened to the public nearly 200 years ago and everything is free to view. The Gallery holds a wonderful and diverse collection of paintings, artefacts and other items. Here are some of
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Sargent and Fashion
I saw the exhibition Sargent and Fashion at the Tate Britain in June 2024. This showcased many portrait paintings by the American artist John Singer Sargent in the late 19th and early 20th century. It was so interesting to see fashion used as art in this way. I saw some
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Now you see us
In 2024, the Tate Britain put on the exhibition Now You See Us: Women Artists in Britain 1520–1920. This was educational for me. I hadn’t heard of any female artists, except Gwen John, and the only painting of hers that I knew was her self-portrait (which is
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