Essays by Katy Deepwell
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Art Critic, London

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2022

‘Declare! Speak Out! Shout! Denounce! Decry! About Feminist Art Manifestos’ in Andreas Beitin, Katharina Koch and Uta Ruhkamp (eds) Empowerment: Art and Feminisms, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany (Summer, 2022) Exhibition catalogue. Federal Agency for Civic Education (Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, bpb).
(Text German/English pp.124-129)

2022

‘Anti-fascist activities amongst women artists in the 1930s in Britain’ in Dra. Concha Lomba Serrano and Dr. Alberto Castán Chocarro (ed) Las mujeres en el sistema artístico (1804-1939) / Women in the Art Scene (1804-1939) (congress at Zaragoza Museum in 2021; Research project, HAR 2017-84399-P, Universidad de Madrid, 2022)

2022

‘Dentro y contra la latusa: la problemática de las mujeres artistas en las historias del arte / In and Against the lathouse: the problematic for women artists in art histories’ in Carmen Cortés-Zaborras, Concepción Cortés Zulueta, Javier Cuevas Del Barrio. (ed) Yo somos otras: Prácticas de la subjetividad en la creación contemporánea (Universidad de Granada, 2022) ISBN: 978-84-338-6854-1 (Spanish text) pp.23-56.

2020

‘Pourquoi 1989? Ecrire sur le feminisme, l’art et le “contemporain global”/‘Why 1989? Writing about feminism, art and “the global contemporary”’ in Elvan Zabunyan et al, Constellations Subjectivités. Pour une Histoire Féministes de L'Art (France: éditions iXe, 2020) pp.64-85. ISBN: 979-10-90032-51-1, following conference (University of Rennes II, 8-10 April 2015)

2019

‘Art Criticism and Africa: AICA Conference at the Courtauld Institute, London, 1996’ in Jean-Marc Poinsot and Henry Meyric Hughes (eds) A Celebration of AICA’s 70th Anniversary / Une Célébration du 70ème anniversaire de l’AICA: 1949-50 – 2019-20. The Histories of AICA, continued (online publication on AICA International website, 25 September 2019. https://aica-international.squarespace.com/blog/2019/9/25/art-criticism-and-africa

2019

‘n.paradoxa’s MOOC (mass open online course): A case study in feminist online pedagogies’ for Gail Crimmins (ed) Strategies for Resisting Sexism in the Academy : Higher Education, Gender and Neoliberalism (Series: Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education, 2019) ISBN: 978-3-030-04851-8

2018

‘Feminist contributions to artworks in Slide-Tape’ in Mo White (ed) Slide-Tape (UK: Vivid Projects, 2018)

2015

‘Feminist Critique: Open and Critical Enquiry: A Conversation between Katy Deepwell and Suzana Milevska’ in Spaces for Criticism (eds. Pascal Gielen, Thijs Lijster, Suzana Milevska, Ruth Sonderegger) (Amsterdam: Valiz publishers, 2015) ISBN: 978-90-78088-75-2 pp.171-192.

2015

‘Thinking/acting with tactics of displacement’ in/about Su Alonso and Ines Marful RE-ACTION, una ginología artística contra el canon. Exhibition Catalogue, published after exhibition 2015 Sala LAUDEO, Universidad de Oviedo (2015)

2015

‘Women Artists in/out of Vorticism’ in G. Berghaus (ed) International Yearbook of Futurism Studies (2015) ISBN: 978-3-11-040850-8 pp. 21-43

2013

‘We don’t need another heroine: Sanja Ivekovic’s Counter-Narratives’ in Helena Reckitt (ed) Sanja Ivekovic: Unknown Heroine - A Reader (London: Calvert 22 Foundation, 2013) ISBN: 978-0-9569628-9-8 pp.110-133

2013

‘Defining the problem: women artists, feminism and globalisation’ in Celebrating International Women’s Day (8 March): Feminism: from avant-garde to present day. Exhibition catalogue. (Moscow: Manezh Museum and The Worker and Kolkhoz Woman Museum in Moscow, March-May 2013) Curator(s): Nataliya Kamenetskaya, Olesya Turkina, Marina Loshak

2013

‘Beatrice Cussol: Feminist, not feminine’ in Mia Sundberg (ed) Beatrice Cussol: Rude Girls (Stockholm: Art and Theory/Sprit Museum, 2013) Exhibition catalogue. ISBN: 978-91-980874-3-7 pp.35-45

2011

'Questioning the gender order: feminist interventions in aesthetics and cultural politics' Artistic Production and the Feminist Theory of Art: New Debates 3 (Vitoria-Gasteiz: Centro Cultural Montehermoso, 2011) Basque, pp.30-42; Spanish pp.150-164; English, pp.270-282.

2009

‘Claims for a Feminist Politics in Painting’ in Anne Ring Petersen (et al, eds.) Contemporary Painting in Context (University of Copenhagen, Novo Nordisk Foundation/ Museum Tusculaneum Press, 2009) pp.139-160

2009

‘Feminist Art Practices: Rewind, Remix and Pump up the Volume!’ one of the ‘Curated Selections’ AXIS (UK) online curated exhibition and 1,000 word text published online at [www.axisweb.org/curatedselections, August 2009, no longer online]

2008-2009

‘Self and Other in Late Consumer Capitalism’ in SELF and OTHER: Portraits from Asia and Europe Exhibition catalogue touring exhibition in Japan and Europe 2008-2009. Curators: Kenjo Yoshida and Brian Durrans. Japanese pp.125-123. English pp.304-306.

2008 ‘Cooling out on Post-Feminism’ in Sabine Schaschl, Bettina Steinbrugge, and Rene Zechlin (eds) Cooling Out – On the Paradox of Feminism (Zurich: JRP Ringier, 2008) (English, pp.74-83, German pp.248-257)
2008

‘Mehr also sieben dringender Fragen zum Feminismus’ in Gisela Weimann (ed.) Geteilte Zeit: Fragen und Antworten (Weimar, Edition Eselsweg, 2008). Text in German and English. pp.237-243. Republished as ‘More than seven urgent questions for feminism’ online in English in n.paradoxa issue 20, April 2008.

2007

‘Feminist Models: Now and in the Future’ in It’s Time for Action (There’s No Option) About Feminism
Migros Museum (Zurich/ JRP Ringier Kunstverlag, 2007) German pp.43-63, English pp.190-208.

2006

‘Issues in Feminist Curation: Strategies and Practices’ in Janet Marstine (ed) An Introduction to New Museum Theory (USA: Blackwells, 2006) ISBN:1-4051-0558-5 pp.64-84.

2005

‘Work/Labour’ for ‘Arbeit/ Work’ curated by Sylvia Eiblmayr Innsbruck: Galerie im Taxispalais, June 2005. Exhibition toured to Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork and Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast in 2006.

2005

'Valuation – De-valuation – Re-evaluation' in Julia Schäfer (ed. and curator) Trautes Heim/ Cosy Home Leipzig: Galerie für Zeitgenossiche Kunst, published by Walter Konig Books, 2005.

2004

Curation of 'Dreams of the Future: Suzanne Treister and Olga Kisseleva' Skuc Gallery, Ljubljana for City of Women 10th Annual Festival, 1-10th October 2004.

2003

'Women's Art Exhibitions' From my Fingers: Living in the Technological Age. Key Event of the First International Women’s Art Festival in Taiwan. (Taiwan: Kaohisung Museum of Fine Arts, May 8-July 27 2003) (English text pp. 46-51: Chinese, pp.40-45). Organised by the Association of Women Artists and Elsa Chen.

2003

‘What does it mean to think as a Feminist?’ in Sanja Ivekovic's Frauenhaus (Zagreb: Museum of Contemporary Art, March 2003). 5 pages, no page numbers. (Text in Croatian and English).
(republished, revised version, Afterall, 15, Spring/Summer 2007)

2002 'Défier l'indifférence a la différence: les paradoxes de la critique d'art féministe' in Pierre-Henry Frangne & Jean-Marc Poinsot (eds) L'Invention de Critique D'Art (France: Presses Universitaries de Rennes, 2002, text in French) ISBN: 2-86847-660-0 pp.191-205.
2002

'Torture, Gender and Representation: Against the Torture of Women' Art of Tortures and Execution - Art Against Tortures and Execution (Open Social Network Art Project, National Centre of Contemporary Art, Kaliningrad, 2002) pp.20-35.

2000

Women, Representation and Speculations on the End of History ’Painting’ for N.Green and P.Seddon (ed) History Painting Reassessed (Manchester University Press, October, 2000) ISBN: 0-7190-5168-1 pp.131-148.

2000

Elaine Kowalsky: Marian and Dorothy short essay, Freud Museum, October 2000.

2000

Interview with Marina Abramovic (first published in n.paradoxa, 1997) republished in Emanuela De Cecco, Gianni Romano (a cura di), Contemporanee. Percorsi, lavori e poetiche delle artiste dagli anni Ottanta a oggi, (Milano, Costa e Nolan, 2000)

2000

Contested Constructions: Objects into Subjects – and the Shifting Boundaries of Female Feminist Subjects’ in Mennesket: Et halvt arhundrede set gennem kroppen. Exhibition catalogue. Copenhagen: Arken Museum of Modern Art. Curator: Stine Hoholt. (September, 2000) pp.45-60, (English pp.198-209).

2000

‘Text and Subtexts’ Binghui Huangfu (ed) Text and Subtext: Contemporary Art and Asian Women Earl-Lu Gallery, Lasalle-SIA College of Arts, Singapore. Book for International Touring Exhibition of Contemporary Asian Women Artists. Curator: Binghui Huangfu. (June, 2000) ISBN: 981-04-2718-2  pp.33-41.

2000

All You Need is Love. Essay for Exhibition catalogue. Gdansk, Poland: Bathhouse. (May 2000) Curator: Aneta Szylak.

2000

'Curating Feminist Histories' in Power Ekroth, Tove Helander (eds) Expositioner: Antologi On Utstallningsmediet: The Exhibition as an Artistic Medium.  Stockholm: Konstfack, 2000 published for the Sollentuna Art Fair, Stockholm. (March, 2000) ISBN: 911-630-9243-4 pp.88-96.

1999

‘An all-too-brief introduction and some issues’ Den Lille Have: Denmark: Exhibition Catalogue, September 1999.

1999

'Desire by Design' AICA 1998 conference papers. Transition: Changing Society and Art (Tokyo: AICA, Japan & AICA Press,1999)

1999

Jacki Parry Ways of Editing. Exhibition catalogue. Glasgow: The Paper Workshop, September 1999. ISBN 0-9537-181-07.

1999

'Dancing Woman'. Exhibition catalogue. Kirsten Justesen Re Kollektion Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum/Aalborg, Denmark.17 April-13 June 1999 p.4.

1998

Essay: 'Visions of Identity in Flux: Chila Kumari Burman', Exhibition Catalogue, Genders and Nations: Shirin Neshat, Chila Burman curator: Salah Hassan, Herbert Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, April 1998.

1998

‘Digital Sampling: women artists' use of technology in Europe, America, Australia’ Edgecutters Women’s Research Group Desire by Design (London: I.B.Tauris, 1998). ISBN 1-86064-280-2 pp. 77-93.

1998

Essay: 'Orthodoxies and Paradoxes in Feminist Art' , Women and Art, papers from 1997 conference, (CCA Galleries, Glasgow,1998).

1997

Introductory essay ‘Women Artists: Careers and Training in Britain and Ireland in the 20th Century’ and 9 separate entries on the work of E.Agar, I.Colquhoun, J.Dismorr, G.Hermes,W.Nicholson, D.Proctor, E.Walker, J.Morreau, Sylvia Gosse in Delia Gaze (ed) Dictionary of Women Artists (Fitzroy Dearborn,1997).
ISBN 1-884964-21-4

1997

‘Bad Girls: Feminism and Identity Politics in the 1990s’ in J. Steyn (ed)
Beyond Identity: Other Than Identity  (Manchester University Press,1997)
pp.152-166. ISBN 0-7190-4463-4.

1996

Catalogue Essay for Jacqueline Morreau: Themes and Variations  Ferens Art Gallery, Hull,  Touring Exhibition November 2-Dec 14 1996 pp.3-7  ISBN  0-9514339-2-X

1996

'A History of the Society of Women Artists' Introduction to Charles Baile de Laperrière (ed.) Society of women artists exhibitors 1855-1996, Wiltshire: Hilmarton Press, 1996.

1996

Hepworth and Her Critics’ David Thistlewood (ed) Barbara Hepworth Reconsidered (Tate Gallery, Liverpool and Liverpool University Press, March 1996) pp. 75-93.  ISBN 0-85323-770-0
(Also commissioned in May 1995 by Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto to write 8 text
panels to accompany touring exhibition of Barbara Hepworth).

1994

‘A Fair Field and No Favour: Women Artists in Britain' in Sybil Oldfield, ed.,
This Working Day World: Womens’ Lives and Culture in Britain 1914-1945, Falmer Press,1994
pp.141-155. ISBN 0-7484-0107-5.

1990

Deanna Petherbridge: Themata, Fisher Fine Art, London exhibition catalogue Jan 17-Feb 18 1990 (Reprinted in WASL Journal No.33 March/April 1990 pp.12-13)