Long-Sharp Gallery is delighted to host a panel discussion exploring "The Present is Female", a microexhibit featured at Treasure House Fair. The panel will take place on Saturday 27 June at 4:00pm and will be comprised of five contemporary women artists with ties to the UK - Nicola Anthony, Yulia Brodskaya, Moira Cameron, Fiona Grady, and Julia Ibbini. The panel will be moderated by critic and journalist Victoria Comstock-Kershaw. 

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About the exhibit, “The Present is Female”: When art historian Linda Nochlin asked in 1971 "Why have there been no great women artists?", she answered her own question: not absence of genius, but absence of access — of studios, patronage, institutional recognition, and historical record. For centuries, women artists worked in near-total anonymity, their contributions absorbed into workshops, attributed to male teachers, or simply lost. The present – albeit slowly – is changing.

In The Present is Female: A Reckoning, U.S.-based Long-Sharp Gallery brings together works by Nicola Anthony, Yulia Brodskaya, Cecily Brown, Moira Cameron, Tacita Dean, Fiona Grady, and Julia Ibbini — seven contemporary artists whose creative practices, though strikingly distinct in medium and subject matter, share deep roots in the United Kingdom and a commitment to the transformative power of material and making.