Woman Up!
WomanUp! podcast speaks to and about artists, academics, writers and activists, midwives, carers and more all (m)others and all womxn. Those challenging ideas and ideals, questioning assumptions and provoking social change.
Originally created under the Desperate Artwives collective, Woman Up! is a podcast dedicated to creating a living archive of these people and this work, that anyone can access. We find those trying to change current structures founded on biases that have to do with gender, caring responsibilities, race, and the integration of the private and the public space. We have conversations about lived experiences, achievements, and aspirations and we will share campaigns and awareness around crucial intersectional struggles and subjects.
Series 4 included 6 episodes produced in partnership with the innovative Procreate ProjectWoman Up! is produced by Artists Amy Dignam and Susan Merrick
Special thanks:
Althea Greenan and The Women’s Art Library at Goldsmiths College for providing us space and equipment to record for S1 and S2 as well as support for the project;
Rosemary Schonfeld and OVA for the use of their track Early in the Evening, and to the Women’s Liberation Music Archive for storing such inspirational music that we can then find!
Mike Dignam for remixing the track
Episodes
56 episodes
Woman Up! On Tour Tate Britain 'Women In Revolt' - Rosy Martin
This is our last Woman Up! On Tour episode for 2023. We would like to take this opportunity to send a massive thanks to all organizations that worked with us this year and all the amazing artists that shared their work with us, rem...
Woman Up! On Tour Margate - Liminal Gallery
In this episode we are in Margate at Liminal Gallery talking to founder and curator Louise Fitzjohn and Margate based artists Mercedes Workmen and Catherine Chinatree. Liminal Gallery represents contemporary artists working ac...
Woman Up! On Tour - Friction Arts, Birmingham
In this episode we are at Friction Arts in Birmingham talking to Sandra Hall Artistic Director and co-founder of Friction Arts (alongside Lee Griffiths) and artists Natalie Mason and Savhanha Small Wyn.For 30 years, Friction h...
Woman Up! On Tour - Quiet Down There, Brighton
In this Woman Up! On Tour episode we went to Brighton and spent time at the incredible Quiet Down There studio talking to thee inspiring women Lucy Jeffries, AFLO.the poet and Alina Hazadeh. .Quiet Down There offers peo...
Woman Up! On Tour - Artlink, Hull
In this episode recorded at Artlink in Hull we spoke to Jemma Brown, Sam Metz and Lydia Shearsmith..Jemma is a creative producer and a specialist working with diverse communities to plan and produce current, relevant, and inclusive artw...
Woman Up! On Tour - Sangini, Newcastle
Sangini is a Black and minorities women led community arts project that is committed to ending gender based violence. They seek to improve the quality of Black and minoritised and socially excluded women's lives by increasing their physical, me...
Woman Up! On Tour - Lady Kitt at Newbridge Project, Newcastle
New episode of Woman Up! On Tour!.Recorded at the Newbridge project I. Newcastle we spoke with disabled artist and drag king, incredible Lasy Kitt .Kitt works on long term, collaborativeprojects driven by...
Woman Up! On Tour - Rogue Artists Studios -Laura Yuile & Anna FC Smith
In this episode we went to Rogue Artists Studios in Manchester and spoke to ecxeptional artists Laura Yuile and Anna FC Smith.Laura’s multidisciplinary practice explores the entanglements between domestic and urban space through matters...
Woman Up! On Tour - Manchester Art Gallery - Natasha Howes, Mary Griffiths and Susie MacMurray
Woman up! On Tour - Manchester Art Gallery New Episode Alert! 🎧 We're thrilled to bring you an extraordinary peek into the art world of Manchester!🗣️ Join us on this captivating podcast episode as we sit down with the remarka...
Woman Up! On Tour Exeter - Mothers Who Make
For our first ‘physical' On Tour episode we travelled to the Phoenix in Exeter to meet the amazing Lizzy Humber producer, artist, mother and co artistic director of the amazing Mothers Who Make movement. At the table with us we invi...
A.M.M.A.A. - Supporting Mother Artists in India
In this episode we talk to artist and founder of A.M.M.A.A (The Archive for Mapping Mother Artists in Asia) Ruchika Wason Singh along two other wonderful artists Alka Mathur and Aparajita Jain Mahajan .&nbs...
Woman Up! Series 5 Episode 1 Spilt Milk & Michelle Gallagher
Spilt Milk Gallery CIC is a social enterprise based in Edinburgh whose mission is to support the work of artists who identify as mothers, and to empower mothers in our community through artist-led activities. They support and advoca...
Woman Up! Series 4 Episode 8 - Pauline de Souza 'Talking Vulnerability, Diversity and Feminism'
Pauline de Souza is the founder and director of Diversity Art Forum. She is a writer and is Senior Lecturer in the Visual Arts Cluster, Fine Art Department at the University of East London, She, is the programmer for Cultural Manoeuvres a...
Woman Up! Series 4 Episode 7 - Syowia Kyambi 'Embracing the Borderlessness of Space Holding'
Syowia Kyambi is an interdisciplinary artist and curator whose media spans across photography, video, drawing, sound, sculpture and performance installation. She holds an MFA from Transart Institute (2020) and a BFA from the School of the Ar...
Woman Up! Series 4 Episode 6 - Louise Ashcroft 'Tales from the Bird Hut Sperm Bank and Other Alternative Parenting Futures'
Louise Ashcroft is an artist who makes video, performance, audio, watercolours and objects which humorously chronicle her critical meddling in real life situations. Often, her work involves analysing cultural content (like the Argos catal...
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Woman Up! Series 4 Episode 5 - Oleksandra Kushchenko and Anita Nemeth 'Art, Activism and Displacement'
Guests: - Oleksandra Kushchenko (Sasha), born in 1988 in Kharkiv, moved to Lviv in 2009. Art critic, art historian, and author of a series of lectures "(Her)story of Art" (2019) and "(Her)story of Photography" (2020) organ...
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Woman Up! Series 4 Episode 4 - Hettie Judah 'How Not to Exclude Artist Mothers (and Other Parents)
In this month's Woman Up! we speak to one of Britain's leading art writers Hettie Judah..Hettie is currently working on a Hayward Gallery Touring exhibition and on a book on art and motherhood. .In this episode, Hettie talk...
Woman Up! Series 4 Episode 3 Frances Hatherley: On Class, the female grotesque and Sublime Dissension.
Dr Frances Hatherley is a writer, researcher and curator. Her writing provokes critical engagements with working-class women’s subjectivities, creativities, art works, and notions of a classed-aesthetics.In 2018 she was awarded...
Woman Up! Series 4 Episode 2 - Sasha Kanster The Work of Ukrainian organisation 'Feminist Workshop'
In Woman Up! Series 4 episode 2 we talked to Sasha Kanster, external affairs manager and educational projects manager for the Feminist Workshop organisation based in Lviv, Ukraine. .Sasha says ' I think a lot of people will find there i...
Woman Up! Series 4 Episode 1 - Annya Sand 'WAAW London - Taking action to increase representation of women artists in galleries and institution'
In this first episode of our re-launch we interviewed Annya Sand co-founder of the WAAW London a new initiative aiming to create more representation for female artists inviting London Art's galleries and non-commercial art institutions to exclu...
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Woman Up! Series 3 Episode 9 - Leni Dothan 'Breaching the Contract'
Leni Dothan is an Israeli-born artist, architect and researcher based in London, dealing with the overlooked representations of women – especially mothers – in art history and contemporary culture. Through the prism of a mother to a boy, a fore...
Woman Up! Series 3 Episode 8 - Lauren Craig 'Social Media Shyness and Cultural Futurism'
Lauren Craig (She/her/hers) is a social-media shy, internet-curious cultural futurist based in London. Her practice draws on her experiences as an artist, curator, researcher, birth/death doula and celebrant. She has founded and directed five c...
Woman Up! Series 3 Episode 7: Felicity Allen - The Disoeuvre
Felicity Allen is a British artist and writer who makes paintings, books and films, often collaboratively. Her current work is mainly focussed on two durational projects. For one she is developing her concept of the Disoeuvre (as a feminist alt...
Woman Up! Series 3 Episode 6 TAKEOVER'Stopping the Fucking Wheel' - Desperate Artwives takeover The Missing Mother Conference
Desperate Artwives Woman Up! podcast takeover Stopping the Fucking Wheel.Original broadcasted live at the Missing Mother conference (University of Bolton, UK) on Friday 23rd April 2021.Missing Mother conference in collaboration with Desperate A...
Woman Up! Special Series 3 Episode 5 ‘An urgent response’ - Shira Richter: 'The conflict in the middle east, a Mothernist perspective'
Woman Up! Special Episode ‘An Urgent Response’Shira Richter – ‘The Conflict in the Middle East, a Mothernist Perspective’Due to the current terrorising and violent situation in the middle east we have decided to make an urgent...
