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When personal subject matter is dismissed as artistically insignificant

I made work about my experience as a mother and critics called it domestic and unimportant

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What we've seen

Gendered assumptions about artistic value are undermining confidence in personally meaningful creative work.

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“Where Are You with Visual art — making images?”

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