The Radical Women Symposium

The Radical Women Symposium will explore new ideas relating to modernist women in early twentieth-century Britain, and their connection to art, literature, gender and radical politics. The exhibition explores the work of Dismorr and the modernist women she was associated with throughout her career – taking Dismorr as a central figure with which to explore women artists in the Slade School of Fine Art in the 1900s, the Rhythm group and Vorticism, to modernist figuration of the 1920s, and the abstract paintings Dismorr showed with anti-fascist groups in the late 1930s. Other artists included in the exhibition are Dorothy Banks, Anne Estelle Rice, Barbara Hepworth, Rita Kern-Larsen, Elizabeth Muntz, Winifred Nicholson, Betty Rea, Edith Rimmington, Helen Saunders, Dorothy Shakespear, Marguerite Thompson Zorach, and Ethel Wright.