Name: Views of their Own: Rediscovering and Re-presenting the Work of Women Artists
Start: 2026-03-13T10:30:00+00:00
End: 2026-03-13T16:30:00+00:00
Location: Somerset House, Strand, WC2R 0RN London, United Kingdom

Views of their Own: Rediscovering and Re-presenting the Work of Women Artists

Timed to coincide with the Courtauld Gallery’s current exhibition, A View of One’s Own: Landscape Drawings by British Women Artists, 1760-1860, this conference aims to investigate the challenges and opportunities presented by the recovery and re-presentation of historic women artists whose work and reputations have fallen out of art historical narratives.
Bringing together art historians and curators, this conference will explore various approaches to the complexities of bringing to light artists long overlooked by art history, whether in an exhibition or through the written word.
This conference is organised by Dr. Rachel Sloan, Associate Curator for Works on Paper, the Courtauld.
Speakers:
Paris A. Spies-Gans: independent scholar
Susan Owens: independent scholar
Hannah Lyons: Curator of Art Collections, University of Reading
John Chu: Senior Curator, National Trust
Alice Rylance-Watson: Assistant Curator, National Trust
Rachel Conroy: Senior Curator, National Trust
Image: Fanny Blake, A rainbow over Patterdale Churchyard, Cumbria, 1849. Watercolour and opaque watercolour over graphite, with scratching out, on wove paper. Jointly owned by the Samuel Courtauld Trust and The Wordsworth Trust. Gift from a private collection in memory of W. W. Spooner, 2025.