Women in Revolt!

About the Author

Linsey Young is Curator of Contemporary British Art at Tate. She was lead curator of the Turner Prize in 2016, 2018 and 2024. Young also curated the major touring exhibition and publication project Women In Revolt! Art and Activism in the UK 1970–1990. The first of its kind, the exhibition is a wide-ranging exploration of feminist art by over 100 women artists working in the UK. Alice Correia is an art historian and editor of What is Black Art: Writings on African, Asian and Caribbean Art in Britain, 1981–1989, published by Penguin in 2022. Stella Dadzie is a historian, activist, educator, and a founding member of the Organisation of Women of Asian and African Descent (OWAAD). Her book The Heart of the Race: Black Women’s Lives in Britain won the 1985 Martin Luther King Award for Literature. Amrita Dhallu is Assistant Curator, International Art at Tate Modern. Zuzana Flaskova is Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary British Art at Tate. Rachel Garfield is Head of Art at University of Reading, with particular interests in lens-based media. She is also an artist and writer. Most recently she authored the book, Experimental Filmmaking and Punk: Feminist Audio Visual Culture in the 1970s and 80s, published by Bloomsbury in 2021. Juliet Jacques is a writer and filmmaker who co-founded and co-hosted Suite (212) on Resonance 104.4fm, which looked at the arts in their social, cultural, political and historical contexts. Dorothy Price is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art and Critical Race Art History at the Courtauld. She was previously at the University of Bristol, where she was Professorial research lead for the Transnational Modernisms Research Cluster, and a founder member and inaugural Director of the Centre for Black Humanities. Price is also Editor of the journal Art History and founded the Tate/Paul Mellon Centre’s British Art Network subgroup on Black British Art. Ash Reid is a PhD candidate at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her project researches the histories and presents of feminist film distributor Cinenova, particularly the ways in which video and film production intersect with the narrative of productive citizenship offered by neoliberal funding regimes in Britain. Amy Tobin is Curator of Contemporary Programmes at Kettle’s Yard, University of Cambridge and Director of Studies in History of Art and Fellow, Newnham College. She co-edited Art of Feminism, published in London and San Francisco by Tate and Chronicle Books in 2018.