Category Archives: Women Who Art

Party Diva!

Over three series of The Mighty Boosh, they managed to weave an impressive number of cameos by various music types into the show… ranging from contemporary indie-schmindie bands that I couldn’t give a toss about, to scary electro ladies like Robots … Continue reading

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ArtCrush: X-Arielle

[Pictured: “Again Please” by X-Arielle, starring ‘Princess Jasmine’ from Aladdin (1992), and ‘Esmeralda’ from The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1996). Apologies to artist for cropping the image a little... it’s a weird compulsion of mine] It’s naive (and potentially dangerous) to believe … Continue reading

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Emin in the news!

A couple of peculiar, non-Art related news stories about Tracey Emin have cropped up this month… First of all, she’s apparently had breast reduction surgery… well, according to The Mirror, anyway. “I was a 34G. I lost a stone on the … Continue reading

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Lee Miller (1907-1977)

As part of my research for a script, I’ve been working my way through Francine Prose’s book The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women & The Artists They Inspired, and yesterday I was introduced to Elizabeth “Lee” Miller. I can’t … Continue reading

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Tracey Emin

The day I went to see Tracey Emin speak at Oxford University was about as close to a perfect day as I’ve ever had. I know she’s a fairly easy target for tabloid snark, and general anti-Art antagonising, but I … Continue reading

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