‘In Her Footsteps: A Tribute to Matrilineal Legacy’, exhibition Perth Institute of Contemporary Art. Image: Supplied.
Did you know that 2025 is the 50th anniversary of International Women’s Year (IWY)? In 1975, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed it would celebrate women, setting in train events that would globally shift the way women were included, and perceived.
In the visual arts, the global Known My Name campaign has shifted the lens significantly over the last decade (it started in the US in 2016), and the work of The Countess Report, which has tirelessly tracked gender balance in the Australian creative sector.
Gina Fairley is ArtsHub's Senior Contributor, after 12 years in the role as National Visual Arts Editor. She has worked for extended periods in America and Southeast Asia, as gallerist, arts administrator and regional contributing editor for a number of magazines, including Hong Kong based Asian Art News and World Sculpture News. She is an Art Tour leader for the AGNSW Members, and lectures regularly on the state of the arts. She is based in Mittagong, regional NSW.
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