Name: Launch: I Find Myself, Barbara Steveni
Start: 2026-01-17T17:30:00+00:00
End: 2026-01-17T19:30:00+00:00
Location: 10 Waterloo Place, BT48 6BU Londonderry, United Kingdom

The team at Void Art Centre invite you to our first opening of 2026 - 'I Find Myself', an exhibition looking at the work of Barbara Steveni (1928-2020) who described herself as an artist-activist.
Steveni's life and work embodied an archive and pioneered a diffused art practice that resists clear definition 🔗 Invisible threads interlink the various roles she played in the contexts within which she was situated and responding to. As with other women artists of her generation she combined childrearing and managing domestic chores with the production of work, and was frequently overshadowed by her male partner’s success. The importance of Steveni’s role in the Artist Placement Group (APG) was often marginalised by gender-inflected terms such as ‘honorary secretary’, her practice is rarely recognised as having a value in its own right.
⚖️ The exhibition 'I Find Myself' intends to redress this imbalance and encompass her life’s work, drawing together her practice and her experimentation with materials, media and strategies across a career spanning more than seventy years.
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🤝 'I Find Myself' launches slightly earlier than our usual openings, with everyone encouraged to visit our friends CCA as they open another guest curated project 'IT'S NOT CLEAR FROM HERE' and Art Arcadia as they celebrate their ten year anniversary at Atelier.