Women in the Art World: In Conversation with a Curator, a Conservator, an Artist and an Academic

Annette Wickham, Curator and Head of Works on Paper at the Royal Academy of Arts (2014-2025), joins Rosie Macdonald, paper conservator at the National Portrait Gallery; Wei Yuan, professional artist and graduate of the Beaux-Arts de Paris; and Dr. Anna Dempster, Fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge, and founder of the charity Cambridge ArtSpace, to discuss their experiences as women in the art world. The floor will then be open for questions from the audience!

This International Women’s Day, join us for an afternoon of tea, cake and engaging conversation in ArtSpace5-7's beautiful exhibition space, surrounded by our new show, Wei Yuan's ‘The Empty Space’. These deeply personal works – many of which incorporate Yuan’s exquisite handmade rice paper – span the past seventeen years of her practice, reflecting on maternal and migratory experience, as well as the restrictions of domestic life, among other rich and varied themes. Her first solo…