London is one of the main art capitals in the world. Exhibitions, galleries, screenings and performances are spread across our cultural city, but why do these places choose to home more male art then womens?
In 2013 campaigners, the East London Fawcett (ELF), gathered research over a year with the aim of showing the gender imbalance in 134 commercial London galleries. The results concluded that sadly out of 3,163 artists, 31% were only women. Women's rights have been rightly thrust into the media, and at the tail end of one of the biggest International Women's Days yet, has much changed in these four years?
With radical feminist group the Guerrilla Girls still fighting sexism in the arts world since 1985, artist Florence Given, 18, is also using her talent as a voice.
"I think being a young female creative is powerful". She added, "It’s our voices that are often shoved under the rug, and now, we have our own movement."
Her latest project focuses on sexual harassment and raising awareness of it to men in the UK. Florence wants to show men, that the F word is nothing to be sniggered at, and we're not talking about that F word, we're talking about feminism guys.
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Her creative influences come from more of the underground scene, but she assures if it wasn’t for the internet, she wouldn’t be creating the work that she is today. One of her favourite pieces of work is a shoot she did with her friend Jenni. Florence explains that it was not the most conceptual, but it was visually beautiful. She said Jenni was "actually crying about how crap she felt about herself before the shoot, and then we made some magic".
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"I am and always will be an advocate for female empowerment and equality."
Check out the rest of Florence's work on social media,
Instagram - @florence_photo
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| Another piece of Florence's work |
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| The artist in question, Florence Given |
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