Art World Women, hosted by arts writer and curator Zoë Goetzmann, takes you behind the scenes of the global art world to amplify and celebrate women and non-binary creatives making waves as artists, curators, art professionals, and cultural leaders. Each episode shines a spotlight on inspiring voices in the visual arts, bringing their stories, struggles, and triumphs to life with accessible notes and fresh perspectives that connect audiences worldwide 🗣🌍🎨💅
Art World Women
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Art World Women, hosted by arts writer and curator Zoë Goetzmann, takes you behind the scenes of the global art world to amplify and celebrate women and non-binary creatives making waves as artists, curators, art professionals, and cultural leaders. Each episode shines a spotlight on inspiring voices in the visual arts, bringing their stories, struggles, and triumphs to life with accessible notes and fresh perspectives that connect audiences worldwide 🗣🌍🎨💅
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June 4, 2026
All About the FÉ Collective & the Next Generation of Women Artists
<p>🎙️ In this episode, I visited London-based artist Lydia Smith (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DY9FG0OIit7/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">@lydiasmithartist</a>) at <a href="https://www.kindredstudios.co.uk" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Kindred Studios</a> in West London to discuss her artistic practice and the work she is doing as co-founder of FÉ Collective.</p><p>🎟️ Purchase tickets for FÉ's Gala (June 12th) <a href="https://www.fe-collective.net/freshers-gala" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">here</a> </p><p>🌿 FÉ is a female-led collective inspired by Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own and dedicated to creating time, space, and opportunities for the next generation of women artists. Through exhibitions, events, lectures, and its <a href="https://www.fe-collective.net/freshers" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Freshers programme</a>, the collective aims to foster critical dialogue and support artists at pivotal stages of their creative careers.</p><p>🎨 We discuss Lydia's multidisciplinary practice, which spans sculpture, works on paper, and digital media, drawing on themes of ancient history, technology, science, and spirituality.</p><p>🌱 We also cover the importance of arts education when navigating the contemporary art world; CIC's ("<a href="https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=cic&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Community Interest Company</a>"; building meaningful communities and support systems for women artists; and finding a balance between order and chaos when managing creative careers.</p><p>🥀 The conversation also explores FÉ's upcoming <a href="https://www.fe-collective.net/freshers-gala" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Freshers Gala</a> on 12 June. Conceived as an alternative to the traditional art world summer party circuit, the event celebrates the artists, assistants, photographers, technicians, and cultural workers who are often working behind the scenes. This year's theme, <strong>Dark Rococo</strong>, invites guests to embrace rich textures, deep tones, ornate details, and unapologetic theatricality while raising funds for FÉ's end-of-year exhibition.</p><p>✨ Lydia Smith is a London-based multidisciplinary artist whose work has been exhibited at Christie’s, the Saatchi Gallery, Bowman Sculpture, and throughout London's contemporary art scene. Her work has been featured in publications including The Telegraph, The Guardian, Mayfair Times, and L'Officiel.</p><p>🎤 Hosted by Zoë Goetzmann (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/byzoesera/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">@byzoesera</a>)</p><p>👉 Follow Lydia Smith andFÉ Collective below</p><p>Lydia Smith Website: <a href="https://www.lydiasmith.gallery" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">lydiasmith.gallery</a></p><p>FÉ Collective Website: <a href="https://www.fe-collective.net" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">fe-collective.net</a></p><p>🔍 Resources: </p><p>FÉ's The Drop-Off Exhibition: As cited from fe-collective.net: </p><p>"The exhibition opens a space to consider the chasm between art school and the art world; a space where there is a drastic drop-off of female artists". </p><p>"According to the Freelands Foundation’s 2020 report, 73% of creative postgraduates in 2019-2020 were women, [2] yet 68% of artists represented in major London commercial galleries are men.[3] This exhibition explores the factors behind this disparity and the challenges women face when entering the art world". </p>
May 7, 2026
London Artist Damaris Athene - Exploring Post-human Bodies, Feminist Art & Micro–Macro Worlds 🌐🧬🖼️
<p>🎙️ In this episode, I visited London-based artist Damaris Athene in her Woolwich studio, following her solo exhibition Undercurrents at <a href="https://www.slqsgallery.com/exhibitions/11-damaris-athene-undercurrents/overview/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">SLQS Gallery</a>.</p><p>🖼️ Her transdisciplinary practice spans painting, sculpture, and photography — exploring post-human ideas of the body, materiality, and the shifting boundaries between the physical and digital.</p><p>🧠 Informed by science, science fiction, and film, her work draws on references from Stranger Things and The Last of Us, alongside cinematic influences from Alfred Hitchcock to Darren Aronofsky, as well as the speculative and feminist writing of Octavia Butler — imagining "new possibilities" while confronting structures of "injustice", Athene says in our podcast chat.</p><p>🌱 We discuss her experiences working as a woman artist today; her practice across art, science, organic forms and technology; her involvement in the <a href="https://fastforward.photography/opportunities/girlpower-residency-in-france/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">GIRLPOWER</a> Residency in the South of France led by Marcelle Joseph and Kimberly Morris; and the need for greater transparency in the art world.</p><p>🔬 The conversation also explores new developments in her work — including the “<a href="https://www.oneearth.org/welcome-to-the-wood-wide-web/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Wood Wide Web</a>" 🍄, an underground network of fungi and tree roots through which plants communicate and share resources — reflected in her root-like ceiling installation in Undercurrents at SLQS Gallery.</p><p>🚿 Her new body of work, import_copy, plays on the material and conceptual language of nature utilising sheer chiffon curtains — exploring ideas of permeability, visibility, and the boundary between private and public space.</p><p>✨ Damaris Athene is a London-based artist and graduate of the Royal College of Art and City & Guilds of London Art School. She has exhibited internationally through D Contemporary, Guts Gallery Project Space, Unveiling Abstractions (<a href="https://fadmagazine.com/2024/03/09/the-top-5-art-exhibitions-to-see-in-london-in-march-3/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Hypha HQ</a> - co-curated by myself & Melissa Vipritskaya Topal in 2024), Saatchi Gallery (<a href="https://www.damarisathene.co.uk/fruiting-bodies" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">the Robert Walters UK New Artist of the Year Award</a>), <a href="https://www.slqsgallery.com/art-fairs/15-mega-art-fair-damaris-athene-ronnie-danaher-hoa-dung-clerget/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">MEGA Art Fair</a> and <a href="https://www.slqsgallery.com/art-fairs/10-women-in-art-fair-new-works-by-damaris-athene/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Women in Art Fair</a> in London as well as <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DVJNZiyApEp/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">miart Art Fair</a> in Milan with Bo Lee Gallery. </p><p>🎤 Hosted by Zoë Goetzmann (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/byzoesera/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">@byzoesera</a>)</p><p>👉 Make sure to follow Damaris' work: </p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/damaris.athene/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Instagram </a></p><p><a href="https://www.damarisathene.co.uk" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Website </a></p><p><strong>🔗 Resources</strong></p><ul><li>Reference: <a href="https://www.octaviabutler.com" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Octavia Butler</a> 📚</li></ul>
April 30, 2026
Minisode: Women Artists Roundtable — (UN)SEEN Labour, Visual Art — Hypha x Eastern City Studios 🎨🏙️⚡
<p><strong>📢 As this episode was recorded live, please turn the volume up for a better listening experience 👏</strong></p><p>🎙️ Recorded live at <a href="https://hyphastudios.com/zoe-goetzmann-fenchurch/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Hypha x Eastern City Studios</a> (130 Fenchurch Street, London — on view until 16th May), this minisode features a women artists roundtable produced alongside (UN)SEEN — the inaugural exhibition at the space, showcasing 21 artists working and creating across the city.</p><p>🖼️ Curated by Art World Women host Zoë Goetzmann, (UN)SEEN explores the seen and unseen forces within contemporary artistic practice across painting, sculpture, design, and installation — moving beyond visibility to consider how artistic labour transcends disciplines, genres, and gender.</p><p>👥 Titled <strong>“(UN)SEEN Labour, Visual Art,”</strong> the roundtable is moderated by editorial stylist <a href="https://graziamagazine.com/me/articles/contemporary-artist-belmin-pilevneli/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer"><strong>Megan McClelland</strong></a><strong> </strong>and features artists Abbie Griffiths (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/abbiegriffiths___/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">@<strong>abbiegriffiths__</strong>)</a>, Anna Kolosova (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/annakolosovaartist/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"><strong>@annakolosova</strong></a>), Ekaterina Adelskaya (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/adelskaya_kate/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">@<strong>adelskaya_kate</strong></a><strong>)</strong>, Epona (a design brand established by Rhiannon Davies) (@<a href="https://www.instagram.com/#" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"><strong>epona______ </strong></a>), and Ewelina Skowronska (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/ewelello/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"><strong>@ewelello</strong></a><br></p><p>🧠 The conversation draws on <a href="https://sociology.berkeley.edu/professor-emeritus/arlie-r-hochschild" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Arlie Russell Hochschild’s </a>feminist concept of emotional labour exploring the invisible emotional and unseen labour within artistic practice — from materiality and inspiration to creative burnout and perceptions of being a woman artist today.</p><p>💭 It also reflects on visual culture, attention, and perception within a saturated image economy.</p><p>✨ (UN)SEEN also includes works by Claudia Pang, Cas Campbell, Emily Hana, Elena Unger, Elina Yumasheva, Hannah Kline, Hannah Shillito, Karolina Dworska, Lucie Davis, Olivia Foster and Taya De La Cruz, with reference to queer artist Adrian Coto within the discussion. </p><p>🎤 Hosted by AWW host Zoë Goetzmann (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/byzoesera/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">@byzoesera</a>)</p><p>🗣️ Also check out Megan McClelland's socials too (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/meg_mcclelland/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"><strong>@meg_mcclelland</strong></a><strong>)</strong> </p><p><strong>References: </strong></p><p><a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pn9bk" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Arlie Russell Hochschild, The Managed Heart</a></p><p>Marine Tanguy (CEO, MTArt Agency), <a href="https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/455848/the-visual-detox-by-tanguy-marine/9781529912647" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">The Visual Detox</a> </p>
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