Trying with Emma Barnett

Trying with Emma Barnett

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Trying...to reframe

Why are we seeing what we are seeing? Who polices the borders of what we are told to value?

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Emma Barnett
Sep 14, 2024
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I snatched 90 minutes last week to lose myself in the Tate Britain’s Now You See Us exhibition - Women Artists in Britain 1520-1920. (An example of the vital “sips of selfhood”, as the writer Natasha Randall beautifully puts it, I imbibe wherever I can between mothering and work).

And unlike some exhibitions where I don’t concern myself that much with t…

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