Marjory Hinemoa Mills
Marjory Mills was one of New Zealand’s leading embroiderers, a talented artist and a successful businesswoman.
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Edith Ngaio Marsh
Artist, playwright, actor, novelist, director
Mona Hatoum
Sculptor Mona Hatoum is part of a generation of artists who started to work more commonly across different media in order to best present their intended message.
Jenny Holzer
Jenny Holzer’s approach to language, choice of unusual settings, and focus on issues of social and cultural importance have influenced a generation of neo-Conceptual artists.
Sophie Calle
One of France’s leading Conceptual artists, Calle’s life and work redefines the role of the artist or author. Her influence can be seen in the work of later “first-person” artists, whose lives and art are also intertwined.
Annie Leibovitz
Annie Leibovitz is known as a celebrity portrait photographer, and has become just as famous as the people she photographs. A master at capturing popular culture icons in dramatic and innovative ways, she has paved the way for other contemporary commercial photographs, like those of Mario Testino, to also be seen as legitimate works of art.
Louise Lawler
Lawler’s nuanced form of Institutional Critique has suggested a way forward for subsequent generations of artists who would come to examine their own position as creators. Her chief emphasis on the conditions of presentation and reception have paved the way for many strands of contemporary art’s practices that emphasize situation and relationality as an indispensable factor of any artistic experience.
Laurie Simmons
Simmons’ use of dolls to explore prescribed gender roles and representations of femininity has opened up space in which other feminist artists can work, facilitating the legitimacy of styles of cultural critique that do not fit within masculine molds.
Sanja Iveković
Iveković is a role model for artists working within the constraints and restrictions of an oppressive regime.
Martha Rosler
RRosler became a leading figure in the Feminist art movement because much of her work revealed the divide between how women were portrayed as individuals whose only place was within the confines of home, marriage, kitchen, and motherhood and the way they actually felt by being pigeonholed into said domestic roles. She also used brave new technologies such as video to differentiate herself from the male art stars and their traditional mediums that had come before.