You’re Not Alone: Women in Art 2025 (British Council Poland/UK Festival 2025)

You’re Not Alone: Women in Art 2025 brings together ten visual artists; their experiences as women outside mainstream art and education and foregrounding their significant contributions to contemporary art. The exhibition showcases the spectrum of different journeys through painting, drawing, textiles and installation, created by self-taught, working class, learning disabled and neurodivergent artists, and by women who feel excluded because of the systems and structures that are inherent within the art world. Featuring works by artists living in the South and Southwest of England it includes: Mahlia Amatina, Kate Bradbury, Ann Churchill, Yvonne Mabs Francis, Sarah Jane Hender, Delaine Le Bas, Kim Noble, Elinor Rowlands, Patricia Shrigley and Kwaga Sillingi who explore shared and different experiences of how they are understood, their personal journeys and their relationships with belonging. Situated across two site specific spaces at Muzeum Śląskie in Katowicach, Poland and Boscombe Arts Depot in Bournemouth, United Kingdom, the exhibitions are part of the events programmed for the UK/Poland 2025 Festival initiated by the British Council. The sister exhibitions, running simultaneously and presenting different works by the same ten artists, highlights the breadth of women’s creativity. The works navigate their relationships with each other and the communities they inhabit, whilst fostering stronger connections and advocating for further awareness of the different experiences of women artists today. Conceived and researched by Carol Maund, Director, BEAF Arts