Uncover female stories and explore the social impact of art through the life and work of artist-activist Barbara Steveni.
Pioneering and influential, Steveni often worked outside the art gallery creating artworks that were multidisciplinary and research based, and often took place without its participants realising. Visit I Find Myself to see some of her most influential works come back to life through restagings and artist interventions.
With a career spanning seventy years, Steveni was influential on many artists of different generations. Explore the galleries where some of Steveni’s key collaborators and those influenced by her career create new commissions responding to her work. New commissions come from Laure Prouvost, Anne Bean and Eloise Hawser.
This first retrospective exhibition of Steveni’s work is co-curated by Gareth Bell-Jones and Jo Melvin.
Barbara Steveni portrait, undated, c.2000’s. Courtesy Estate of Barbara Steveni.
Barbara Steveni and Artist Placement Group contributing to the event ‘L’Engineering conceptuel’, part of the exhibition Un Certain Art Anglais at the Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris, 20th January, 1979. Image copyright Rolf and Ros Sachsee. Courtesy Estate of Barbara Steveni.
Artist Placement Group, The Sculpture – Vacant State, exhibition view Between 6, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, 1971. Courtesy Estate of Barbara Steveni.
Barbara Steveni’s studio with collected objects. Anstey Road, Peckham, 1995. Courtesy Estate of Barbara Steveni.
Portrait of Barbara Steveni, stood with her work Banner, 1993. Image taken at Between 1: Value, South London Gallery, 2007. Photo: John Mallinson. Courtesy Estate of Barbara Steveni.
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Barbara Steveni: I Find Myself is generously supported by the Henry Moore Foundation, The Ampersand Foundation, Knotenpunkt, Flat Time House and the Estate of Barbara Steveni.
