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Counting Change and Change that Counts: Gender Equality in the National Gallery of Australia’s Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now

Counting Change and Change that Counts: Gender Equality in the National Gallery of Australia’s... Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, 2022, vol. 22, no. 2, 224–229 https://doi.org/10.1080/14434318.2022.2143763 EXTENDED REVIEW Counting Change and Change that Counts: Gender Equality in the National Gallery of Australia’s Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now. National Gallery of Australia, Part One, 14 November 2020 – 9 May 2021. Part Two, 12 June 2021 – 26 June 2022 The National Gallery of Australia’s Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now was a gender equity project which showcased more than 400 works by 170 women artists across the National Gallery of Australia (NGA) in a two part exhibition during 2020-2022. Alongside the exhibitions’ were a number of other projects such as the display of works by women artists from the NGA collection on billboards and signage across the country, a major catalogue publication and an international conference. Know My Name (KMN) aimed to ‘celebrate the work of all women artists to enhance understanding of their contribution to Australia’s cultural life.’ Yet to my mind, the physical exhibitions left little space to acknowledge the nuances embedded within the term ‘woman’, at the risk of reproducing reductive modes of representation and reinforcing the very gender binary that http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art Taylor & Francis

Counting Change and Change that Counts: Gender Equality in the National Gallery of Australia’s Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now

Shim, Soo-Min
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art , Volume 22 (2): 6 – Jul 3, 2022
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Counting Change and Change that Counts: Gender Equality in the National Gallery of Australia’s Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now

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Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, 2022, vol. 22, no. 2, 224–229 https://doi.org/10.1080/14434318.2022.2143763 EXTENDED REVIEW Counting Change and Change that Counts: Gender Equality in the National Gallery of Australia’s Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now. National Gallery of Australia, Part One, 14 November 2020 – 9 May 2021. Part Two, 12 June 2021 – 26 June 2022 The National Gallery of Australia’s Know My Name: Australian Women Artists...
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Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, 2022, vol. 22, no. 2, 224–229 https://doi.org/10.1080/14434318.2022.2143763 EXTENDED REVIEW Counting Change and Change that Counts: Gender Equality in the National Gallery of Australia’s Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now. National Gallery of Australia, Part One, 14 November 2020 – 9 May 2021. Part Two, 12 June 2021 – 26 June 2022 The National Gallery of Australia’s Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now was a gender equity project which showcased more than 400 works by 170 women artists across the National Gallery of Australia (NGA) in a two part exhibition during 2020-2022. Alongside the exhibitions’ were a number of other projects such as the display of works by women artists from the NGA collection on billboards and signage across the country, a major catalogue publication and an international conference. Know My Name (KMN) aimed to ‘celebrate the work of all women artists to enhance understanding of their contribution to Australia’s cultural life.’ Yet to my mind, the physical exhibitions left little space to acknowledge the nuances embedded within the term ‘woman’, at the risk of reproducing reductive modes of representation and reinforcing the very gender binary that

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