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Discover the creative journey of Joanna Pilarczyk, from her childhood in Poland and television-inspired colour palette to her vibrant figurative paintings in London.

Joan Cox has spent more than twenty-five years exploring the figure, creating intimate oil paintings that centre queer women and the ordinary moments of their lives. Her couples appear in homes, parks, bedrooms, and everyday settings, surrounded by the objects, animals, books, clothing, and details that reveal who they are. Drawing from art history while reimagining familiar compositions through contemporary queer perspectives, Joan creates paintings that give women who love women space to exist on their own terms. Her work challenges the tradition of depicting women primarily through the male gaze,…

Your professional website is more than an online portfolio. Here are five essential things every artist should have on their website to make their work easy to discover, understand, buy, and connect with.

Explore five world-class art museums from home, from the National Museum of Women in the Arts and the Met to the Louvre and British Museum, with virtual tours and digital collections.

Gaëlle Étémé approaches art as an act of listening rather than control, allowing lines, colours, and gestures to guide the work as it unfolds. Working across Indian ink, charcoal, pastel, collage, textile, and painting, she has developed a distinctly calligraphic practice rooted in rhythm, movement, and the mysterious autonomy of the sign. Her journey began through sociology, metaphysical questions, and an intense exploration of the origins of alphabets, eventually leading her to draw lines continuously for a year and develop her own graphic language, which she calls the “alphabet of suffering.”…

The Things We Feel is Women in Arts Network’s newest international virtual exhibition, inviting women and non-binary artists to explore the emotions, memories and experiences that inspire their work.

Five women artists who used pseudonyms and alternate identities to navigate the art world, reinvent themselves, and explore questions of gender, identity, and creative freedom.

This week’s art news highlights five stories from across the women’s art world, from new virtual exhibitions and international open calls to major exhibitions celebrating South Asian and Black women artists, and a new painting series by Spanish artist Juana González.

Discover five exhibitions to add to your fall art calendar, from contemporary Cuban women artists and Black women artists to a major Eva Gonzalès retrospective in Paris and an international virtual exhibition.

Juniper Sikora is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher whose practice begins with a simple but powerful act: paying attention. Working across photography, sound, installation, bioplastics, field research, and participatory experiences, she investigates water as both material and collaborator. She collects water from specific locations, records underwater sounds, photographs droplets, creates bioplastics that physically contain traces of place, and builds experiences that encourage viewers to touch, listen, and investigate. Her Water Response Atlas brings these encounters together as an evolving archive of photographs, recordings, samples, and observations. Across her work, Juniper is…