The Women's Art Collection

30/09/2026

29/07/2026

Have you visited our current exhibition ‘Relative Ties’ yet? Escape from the heat and enjoy painting, collage, rag rugs, sculpture and more! On until 6 September. 🌻🌾🌞🪴

06/07/2026

The wonderful visited our current exhibition ‘Relative Ties’ and spent some time with our brilliant gardening team with her little one last week 🌞

Here’s our gardener Caitlin showing Alice our cutting bed which is in full bloom with an array of flowers including dahlias, cornflowers and irises 🌼

25/06/2026

Thank you to everyone who joined us for In Her Words: Women Artists and Life Writing Symposium ✍️

Despite the warm weather we welcomed over 100 guests and heard some amazing presentations from speakers from across the UK and beyond! Here are just a few of the papers from the day 🌞

Thank you to for supporting the event.

This symposium will be followed by the Women and the Arts Forum 2026 conference “In Her Words: Women Artists and Life Writing Before 1920”, at the , London, on 2 October 2026.

31/05/2026

13/04/2026

New event! Women Artists’ Life Writing in Fiction and Biography 📖

19 June, 6.30-8pm, Buckingham House Lecture Theatre, Murray Edwards College
 
Join writers Harriet Baker, Rebecca Birrell, and Alicia Foster for a discussion of how women artists’ life writing has been used in their work, encompassing fiction, non-fiction and biography. Moderated by Linda Goddard.
 
This event will take place in the evening after ‘In Her Words: Women Artists and Life Writing Symposium’. Please book your tickets to both events separately.

17/03/2026

Now open! 📣

We’re delighted that Relative Ties is now open to the public! Relative Ties celebrates over a century of artistic innovation and inheritance, tracing the work of four women from the celebrated Nicholson family — Mabel Nicholson, Nancy Nicholson, EQ Nicholson and Louisa Creed. Accompanying the work of this family is a new commission by contemporary artist Katie Schwab, whose work explores the relationships between generations of women and their shared creative approaches.

Open daily, free, no booking required. Exhibition is on until 6 September at 🌟

11/03/2026

Monday night marked the annual Monday Muse Celebratory Dinner from The Wick, championing some of the best and brightest women of today’s cultural industry, hosted in partnership with The Chancery Rosewood. Our Director Harriet Loffler had the pleasure of attending this wonderful evening.

Centred around the theme “Constellation” the evening celebrated the bonds and networks which are vital culture and art to thrive.

The Wick is on a mission to Connect the Culturally Curious and “Monday Muse” is a weekly feature created by The Wick celebrating and platforming women who have created cultural impact and legacy with their work and in their expertise and creativity covering the visual arts, design, and interdisciplinary creative industry sectors. Last night was a moment to champion this community and culture’s power to bring people together.

In celebration of this theme and International Women’s Week, the evening was hosted in the latest addition to The Chancery Rosewood, Japanese restaurant Tobi Masa, founded by the renowned sushi chef, Masayoshi Takayama.

The Chancery Rosewood’s remarkable 850-strong art collection reflects a deep dialogue between art and hospitality, the past and the present, bringing together paintings, photography, tapestry and sculpture from both sides of the Atlantic, reflecting a deep history of cultural exchange. It was amongst these works that poet Sophia Thakur gave a spellbinding performance, tying the evening together in the spirit of culture and community.


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03/03/2026

The women in our upcoming exhibition ‘Relative Ties’ that opens this week on Friday 6 March! 📷

In the first photo is artist Louisa Creed, followed by her mother EQ Nicholson, EQ’s sister-in-law Nancy Nicholson, and Nancy’s mother, Mabel Nicholson 🧵

We can’t wait to share this exhibition with you! Visit us between 10am–5pm any day of the week for free 🖼️

02/03/2026

New acquisition: ‘Enmeshed’ (2023) by Debbie Yeboah .debbie.yeboah 🌿

This piece engages the artist’s concepts of “braiding as re-membering” and “renaturation”, theoretical concepts she developed during her PhD at Cambridge and continues to explore.

These concepts consider the reconstitution and reimagining of the African self in the wake of coloniality. It considers the potential for healing from the tangible, embodied, and violence of coloniality on the Ghanaian body, knowledge, and identity. The play on “remembering” is a counter to the device of colonial amnesia, a forgetting of the damage caused on culture and self.

For this work, Yeboah employed acrylic painting, scanning, digital iterations of collaging, layering and the imagery of the braid, overlaid on the figure in a double negative. The background foliage shown is from the gardens around the artist’s home in Accra Ghana, and crowns the figure with palm leaves. The motif of the braid, shown on the face and shoulder is a reminder of everyday Ghanaian artistry, as well as the intimate communal connections that create it.

This piece formed part of the work presented in Yeboah’s first solo show, ‘Renaturation: Fractured Identities, Future Selves’ at The Women’s Art Collection in 2024.

Come and see this work in the Art Cafe at 🖼️

Acquired with the support of Katy Anusha Wickremesinghe, Sigrid Kirk, Lucy-Anne Garnett and Rachel Polonsky.