Feminist art is art by artists made consciously in the light of developments in feminist art theory in the early 1970s

Artworks that are created through actions performed by the artist or other participants, which may be live or recorded, spontaneous or scripted

Afrapix was a photographers' collective and agency founded in South Africa in 1982 which encouraged its members to use photography as activism

The Arab Image Foundation (AIF) is a not-for-profit organisation established in Beirut in 1997 to preserve, exhibit and study photographs from the Middle East, North Africa and the Arab diaspora from the nineteenth century to today

Hackney Flashers was a women’s arts collective active between 1974 and 1980. Most of the group were photographers and defined themselves as socialists and feminists

Identity politics is the term used to describe an anti-authoritarian political and cultural movement that gained prominence in the USA and Europe in the mid-1980s, asking questions about identity, repression, inequality and injustice and often focusing on the experience of marginalised groups

Impressionism developed in France in the nineteenth century and is based on the practice of painting out of doors and spontaneously ‘on the spot’ rather than in a studio from sketches. Main impressionist subjects were landscapes and scenes of everyday life

The term installation art is used to describe large-scale, mixed-media constructions, often designed for a specific place or for a temporary period of time

Abject art is used to describe artworks which explore themes that transgress and threaten our sense of cleanliness and propriety particularly referencing the body and bodily functions