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Image: Louise Bourgeois, SPIDER I, 1995, Collection The Easton Foundation, Bronze, dark and polished patina, wall piece, 50 x 46 x 12 1/4″; 127 x 116.8 x 31.1 cm
Julie Mehretu Supported by
WHITE CUBE
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About Dr Amy Tobin
Amy Tobin is a Lecturer in the History of Art at the University of Cambridge, Curator of Exhibitions, Events and Research at Kettle’s Yard and Director of Studies in History of Art: Newnham College and Homerton College.
She completed her PhD at the University of York in 2017 with a thesis titled ‘Working Together, Working Apart: Feminism, Art and Collaboration in Britain and North America, 1970–1981’. She was a pre-doctoral fellow at the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. in 2014 and a Terra Foundation for American Art pre-doctoral researcher in 2014–5. After her PhD she won post-doctoral research grants from the Paul Mellon Centre for British Art and the Henry Moore Foundation.
About Louise Bourgeois
Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010) was born in Paris and lived and worked in New York from 1938. She is widely recognised as one of the most important figures of modern and contemporary art. Often biographical, Bourgeois’ work explores themes including childhood, family, motherhood and gender identity.
About Julie Mehretu
Julie Mehretu was born in Addis Ababa in 1970 and lives and works in New York. She makes large-scale, gestural paintings that are built up through layers of acrylic paint on canvas overlaid with mark-making using pencil, pen, ink and thick streams of paint.
ARTIST ROOMS
The Louise Bourgeois exhibition draws from the ARTIST ROOMS touring collection of over 1,600 works of modern and contemporary art. The collection is displayed across the UK in solo exhibitions that showcase the work of more than 40 major artists, and this touring programme gives young people the chance to get involved in creative projects, discover more about art and learn new skills. Since 2009, 40 million people have visited more than 150 displays at over 75 museums and galleries.
ARTIST ROOMS is jointly owned by the National Galleries of Scotland and Tate. The collection was established through The d’Offay Donation in 2008, with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, Art Fund, and the Scottish and British Governments.
