Is there still merit in sales dedicated solely to women’s art, or has the ground shifted sufficiently that we can move on?
A rudimentary measure might involve looking at the top ten prices achieved at auction so far this year – only one of the artworks is by a woman, Ethel Carrick Fox. Another measure might be to look at the top ten most-traded artists this year – Emily Kame Kngwarreye and Cressida Campbell sneak in at positions nine and ten respectively. The rest are male.
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Gabriella Coslovich is an arts journalist with more than 20 years’ experience, including 15 at The Age, where she was a senior arts writer. Her book, Whiteley on Trial, on Australia’s most audacious of alleged art fraud, won a Walkley in 2018.
