After the Women’s Art Movements: Inheritances of Care and Relationality in Contemporary Art
The Women’s Art Movements emerged in the 1970s across Australia with organisations incorporated in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Canberra and Perth (1974–1990) and more informal groups in other cities and regions. The movement’s core business was to revise history and promote women’s art through political activism, exhibitions, photographic slide archives and art history. North American feminist writer, Lucy R. Lippard, campaigned for the creation of archives on women artists and visited Australia on several occasions and today the Women’s Art Register in Melbourne, established in 1975, is the longest running archive of its kind.
