Highlights
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Online Guide
Women and Art
Explore the stories and achievements of women artists and their contributions to the art world -
Quiz
Find your art inspiration
Celebrate the pioneering work of women artists with our personality quiz
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List
Five Stories of Queer Artists
Discover five important stories of queer love and relationships told through art
Meet the Collection Artists
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Tate Kids
Who Are They?
Who is Lubaina Himid?
Get ready to look and think! This artist wants to tell us beautiful stories about friendship and strength
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TateShots
An Introduction to Barbara Hepworth
Curator Chris Stephens spotlights the physical process and attention to detail behind Hepworth’s work
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List
An Introduction to Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
From her imagined figures to her poetic titles, discover this figurative painter’s work
Art in the collection
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Fiona Rae Maybe you can live on the moon in the next century
2009 -
Jadé Fadojutimi I Present Your Royal Highness
2018 -
Sanja Ivekovic Make-up - Make-down
1978 -
Sheba Chhachhi Urvashi - Anti Dowry sit-in, 1982
1990–1991 -
Lynda Benglis Quartered Meteor
1969, cast 1975 -
Zarina Hashmi Letters from Home
2004 -
Sarah Jones The Dining Room (Francis Place) I
1997 -
Chila Kumari Singh Burman If There is No Struggle, There is No Progress - Uprisings
1981 -
Ellen Gallagher Bird in Hand
2006
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Tate Kids
Quiz
Quiz: Which Art Activist Are You?
Take this quiz to find out what kind of art activist you are!
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Student Resource
Space Coursework Guide
From the space race to heavenly bodies, find some coursework inspiration
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In the Gallery
Women and Power: A walk through Tate Britain
Explore stories of women’s empowerment across the centuries through works in our collection
Listen
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In the Gallery
Audio Description: Two Forms (Divided Circle)
Listen to and watch an in-depth visual description of this artwork by artist Dame Barbara Hepworth
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Podcast
Where does inspiration come from?
Fly under the radar, explore creative spaces, and discover the importance of drawing a sheep
Art Terms
Find definitions of over 400 terms, including art movements, styles and techniques
See more Art TermsAirbrushing
Airbrushing is a painting technique which uses an airbrush to give an even and consistent surface, often used to create a high level of realism
Feminist art
Feminist art is art by artists made consciously in the light of developments in feminist art theory in the early 1970s
PESTS
PESTS was an anonymous protest and pressure group of artists operating in New York in the 1980s who aimed to expose the discrimination, exclusion and tokenism directed towards artists from racial minorities by commercial galleries and public museums
Activist art
Activist art is a term used to describe art that is grounded in the act of ‘doing’ and addresses political or social issues
Gouache
Gouache is a type of water-soluble paint that, unlike watercolour, is opaque so the white of the paper surface does not show through
Miniature
A miniature is a small painting, usually a portrait
Pan-Africanism
The term pan-Africanism refers to an ideology of racial solidarity with Africa and its diaspora formed in the mid-nineteenth century
Digital art
Digital art is a term used to describe art that is made or presented using digital technology
Live art
The term live art refers to performances or events undertaken or staged by an artist or a group of artists as a work of art, usually innovative and exploratory in nature
Identity politics
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
Kitchen Sink painters
Kicthen Sink painters is a term applied to a group of British artists working in the 1950s who painted ordinary people in scenes of everyday life
Collective
Loosely defined, an art collective is a group of artists working together to achieve a common objective
The uncanny
A concept in art associated with psychologist Sigmund Freud which describes a strange and anxious feeling sometimes created by familiar objects in unfamilar contexts
Bloomsbury
Bloomsbury is the name commonly used to identify a circle of intellectuals and artists who lived in Bloomsbury, near central London, in the period 1904–40
Dig Deeper
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Tate Etc
Art for Every Body?
Many museums and galleries now put queer culture on display, but true recognition may continue to elude gender-diverse artists
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In Focus
String Composition 128 1964 by Sue Fuller
Sue Fuller testifies to the often overlooked influence of craft traditions on the development of modernist abstraction.
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Tate Etc
The Diaspora Dilemma
The winner of the first Tate Collective Writing Prize shows a tale of inner conflict and ‘environmental racism’
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Tate Etc
Five Young Writers Respond to the Climate Emergency
Tate Collective members share their responses to artworks by Simryn Gill