WHAT? Women in Revolt! Art and Activism in the UK 1970-1990

WHERE? Tate Britain, Linbury Galleries, Millbank, London SW1P 4RG 

WHEN? Now until 7th April 2024

WHY GO? To challenge and be challenged. Explore the narrative of girl-power through two decades in this colossal exhibition that screams feminism full on!  Highlighting the women activists who helped shape our society today, it will be especially pertinent if you lived through the Seventies and campaigned for equal pay or participated in one of the numerous marches to improve women’s rights.

From individuals like Bobby Baker to groups such as the Greenham Common women, it chronicles their revolutionary engagements through artistic endeavours, sometimes wild and wacky like Baker’s reconstruction of her famous edible mobile home, other times challenging and provocative like Penny Slinger’s nude self-portrait spliced through a wedding cake. 

It attempts not to preach and lecture, but to explore through documents, photographs and posters plus some truly arresting paintings and takes us on a journey of discovery and appreciation for our sisters who braved the status quo and challenged convention.

Bring your daughters, this landmark exhibition needs to be seen, warts and all, especially during these turbulent times when thankfully we still have the right in the UK at least to speak freely.

Though take note, there’s a very graphic home birth filmed by Robina Rose (1977) to ear splitting screams on full view, just in case you’re feeling fragile!

IN THE KNOW Multi-disciplinary artist Bobby Baker caused a storm in a teacup with An Edible Family in a Mobile Home in 1976 and has restaged her radical feminist artwork on Tate Britain’s South Lawn just outside the exhibition. The sculptural ‘family’ made of sweet treats can be sampled.  All baked by the yummy Lily Vanilli.