Many times, as muses; few times, as artists. Women have been banned from education, academia, exhibiting, and their work has been taken lightly throughout the history of art; but it’s time to amend it. “The challenges of being taken seriously, the challenges of family, the challenges of being not competent enough to take on large projects”; aware of the difficulties that women artists have had and still have to confront, and with the idea to make the world a bit more just, Lisa Fehily recently opened the
Finkelstein Gallery in Melbourne, a space intended solely for exhibiting women’s works and help them launch their careers while fighting gender inequality.