What Remains: 40 Years of The Women’s Art Collection

What Remains: 40 Years of The Women’s Art Collection

Published to accompany the What Remains exhibition at The Women’s Art Collection in Cambridge, this booklet explores the histories, ideas and artistic practices brought together in the exhibition. 

Marking forty years since the acquisition of Mary Kelly’s Extase (1986), this booklet brings together an introduction to the exhibition alongside texts and conversations on the themes explored in What Remains. It begins with Lucy Howie and Alina Khakoo’s account of Mary Kelly and the Artists-in-Residence Programme that ran at Kettle’s Yard throughout the 1980s, followed by a conversation between Kelly and Amy Tobin reflecting on the resulting work, Extase. Evelyn Whorrall-Campbell’s Radical Deviance: A Journal of Transgendered Politics considers the importance of grassroots publishing to the development of feminist and transgender art and politics in Britain, extending the exhibition’s exploration of the ways marginalised histories are carried forward. The booklet concludes with reproductions and interpretations of the artworks included in What Remains. Together, these contributions document the history of Extase and its place within The Women’s Art Collection, while situating the works within the wider histories, conversations and practices that continue to shape the Collection.

Artists: Lorna Hamilton-Brown, Rachael House, Sarah-Joy Ford, Mary Kelly, Ellen Lesperance, Helen de Main, Sadé Mica, Kelly O’Brien, Olivia Plender and Ebun Sodipo

Written and edited by Laura Moseley, with contributions from Lucy Howie, Mary Kelly, Alina Khakoo, Amy Tobin and Evelyn Whorrall-Campbell.

ISBN 978-1-0369-9413-6