Interviews
Interviews and quotesLaura Ongpin-Taylor: “The photographs are spectacular - theatrical and intimate, intelligent and thought-provoking, strong and wistful, all at the same time, marrying tradition with an edgy, forward looking twist.”
Interviews and quotes
Laura Ongpin-Taylor:
“The photographs are spectacular - theatrical and intimate, intelligent and thought-provoking, strong and wistful, all at the same time, marrying tradition with an edgy, forward looking twist.”
What women say.
What women say.
I asked all the women in the project the same six questions. In the upcoming time I will publish some of the answers and quotes that I cherish (work in progress).
Gráinne Rice is Adult Programme Coordinator at National Galleries of Scotland
Gráinne Rice is Adult Programme Coordinator at National Galleries of Scotland
Gráinne Rice (b. 1975, London, UK) is Adult Programme Coordinator at National Galleries of Scotland. She joined NGS in 2014 after two years of art school teaching in Glasgow and Edinburgh. She previously worked in the Exhibitions Departments of Dovecot Tapestry Studios, Edinburgh, the Victoria and Albert Museum, London and Glasgow School of Art. She has an M.A. (Hons) in History of Art from University of Glasgow and an M.A. in Exhibition Interpretation from Edinburgh Napier University. She has a PhD from Edinburgh College of Art/ University of Edinburgh. She sits as a Board Director of Upland CIC and The Steven Campbell Trust.
Do you have any special thoughts about the position of women in the art world?
Do you have any special thoughts about the position of women in the art world?
Just the observation that despite the overwhelming numbers of women students at art school and in art history departments, and the over-representation of women at the operational end of curating and exhibition-making, men are still usually in charge of running galleries, museums, universities and art schools. The picture is changing but we do need to do more work on genuinely diversifying artworld power structures – carefully considering race and class too - it makes for better exhibitions, better art and better more complex art histories.
Beth Bate, Director of Dundee Contemporary Arts
Beth Bate, Director of Dundee Contemporary Arts
Beth Bate (b. 1977, Portsmouth, UK) is Director of Dundee Contemporary Arts in Scotland. She joined DCA in 2016 after ten years as Director of Great North Run Culture in Newcastle, England and a year’s Fellowship with the Clore Leadership Programme. She holds a B.A. in English with History of Art from the University of Birmingham and an M.A. in Museum Studies from the University of Leicester. Her publications include Mark Wallinger Mark, Clare Woods; Victim of Geography and David Austen: Underworld. She is a Trustee of Edinburgh Art Festival, a member of the British Council’s Scotland Advisory Committee, and and was a selector for the British Pavilion at the 2021 Venice Biennale with Sonia Boyce.
Do you have any special thoughts about the position of women in the art world?
Do you have any special thoughts about the position of women in the art world?
It’s a very mixed picture. I feel lucky to work in a sector in which many women have been able to flourish and succeed - when I look at my colleagues, as directors and leaders in institutions and of initiatives across Scotland and the UK, we have a lot to be proud of. But we have so much more to do to ensure women of colour, trans women, those with disabilities and those from different economic backgrounds are able to share this success. Awareness of intersectionality and wider equalities is growing all the time, but we are still very early on in the journey.
“Carla van de Puttelaar’s tribute to women is so visceral that each sitter is poised to tell you
her story in a way few photographers can accomplish.
When I saw her exhibit at Sotheby’s in New York, I was “blown away” by her sensitivity
towards each subject.
It’s hard to discover the true DNA of a woman’s essence in photography.
It’s even harder to combine that and the Art History of the Dutch Masters.
But Carla does it with her sensitive eye and extraordinary sense of detail in her photographs.
Her work is truly a woman’s view of women. Unparalleled.”
Carole Wilson Cohn, New York
"The session with Carla made me feel like one of Sir Joshua Reynold’s sitters, for she engaged me in an interesting conversation and I was fascinated by her professionalism – her study of the light, the experimenting with different poses, the exemplary patience. Thomas Carlyle declared that he could learn more about a person from a portrait than from one hundred books, and in my case Carla certainly seems to have captured the continuing quest for knowledge which enthrals me!
Diana Scarisbrick, London