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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…

The Things We Feel is a new international virtual exhibition open call by Women in Arts, inviting women and non-binary artists to explore emotion, memory, experience, and the inner worlds that shape their creative practice.

Ellie Goodliffe brings her background in microbiology into a vibrant fine art practice that explores illness, human biology, mental health, motherhood, and the complexities of being human. Working across acrylic, alcohol ink, abstraction, and experimental processes, she transforms scientific subjects and difficult experiences into colourful, emotionally charged artworks. From cancer cells and neurodegenerative disease to menstruation, addiction, and mental health, Ellie uses art to make complex and often uncomfortable subjects more accessible, thought-provoking, and visually compelling. Her practice embraces both scientific precision and emotional expression, allowing biology and art to exist…

Learn how emerging artists can price their art fairly, research comparable artists, build consistent pricing, and raise prices as their practice grows

From drawing fundamentals and painting techniques to contemporary art and career advice, these five YouTube channels offer genuinely useful resources every artist can return to.