'ART AGE AND GENDER'
The Foundation for Women's Art (FWA).

Fifty-four women artists exhibited work on all aspects of ageing from the cradle to the grave.

'Art Age and Gender' included well known artists such as painter Susan Wilson with her dark Self Portrait 'As I Remember my Mother'; Yvonne Crossley and her 'Three Score Years and Ten (Abstract)' - an installation piece with symbolic items from one woman's life - and Leslie Hakim-Dowek's compelling words and photographs of mantelpieces looking at displacement, memory and identity. Other mould-breaking exhibitors included Vicky Brand with her moving double portrait of herself and her daughter, 'Bloodties'. Vicky began painting after thirty years as a nurse and midwife. By contrast, recent Royal College of Art graduate Natuka Honrubia showed starkly horrific iron sculptures of apparatus and dismembered body parts.

The exhibition was selected by art historian Frances Borzello, academic and commentator Germaine Greer, artist Jenny Saville, expert on ageing Dr Leonie Kellaher and curated by Monica Petzal, exhibitions director of FWA and Rachel Tranter of Orleans House.