Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.When Katy Hessel learnt that she had been rejected by Cambridge University, where she had hoped to study art history, she was crushed.
Next month Hessel lands on our shores with a busy schedule – seven talks over 11 days in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. Along the way we meet impressive women such as the self-taught Dominican nun Plautilla Nelli , who set up an all-female workshop at her convent in Florence; German-Jewish artist Charlotte Salomon , who recorded her experiences during the rise of Nazism, producing art in the most challenging circumstances; and sculptor Augusta Savage , the first African-American woman to open a private art gallery in the United States.
When Instagram was still an emerging social media platform, there was greater potential to forge a career on the site and make friends with people of influence, and Hessel duly did. “It was amazing because suddenly every museum director or gallery or artist started getting an account,” she recalls. “ Frances Morris and I were following each other, Cecily Brown and I were DM-ing … it was like, ‘oh my god, Cecily Brown is following me and I’m just this front-desk person at a gallery’.
Hessel grew up in north-west London, the youngest of four siblings, with parents who would often send their kids off to explore the city’s renowned museums. She was only six years old when the Turbine Hall opened at the Tate Modern in May 2000, and entering that vast space was her first momentous encounter with art.
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