Shining a light on Australian women artists 2022

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Sheila: A Foundation for Women in Visual Art is a national philanthropic foundation with a mission to overturn decades of gender bias by writing Australian women artists back into our art history and ensuring equality for today's women artists.

John Cruthers, Chair of Sheila, will join us during Women's History Month to talk about the backstory of the foundation, its aims and projects, and the future of women's art.

Come along to hear about this unique foundation which began when John Cruthers' mother Sheila Cruthers started collecting women's art in 1974. Its evolution from a personal collection to the major Cruthers Collection of Women's Art which was donated to the University of Western Australia to the Sheila Foundation will be of great interest to art lovers particularly those interested in learning more about Australian women's art.

John Cruthers will discuss the range of different projects the foundation is undertaking including Into the Light: Recovering Australia's lost women artists 1870-1960, Contemporary Women and Going Global: Taking the Cruthers Collection to the world and how these aim to shine a light on Australian women artists.