Author: Helen Gørrill

Helen Gørrill holds a PhD in contemporary British painting, which was co-supervised by Coventry University and the RCA. She is currently writing her book Women Can”t Paint: Gender, the Glass Ceiling and Values in Contemporary Art for I.B. Tauris (2018). Helen holds First Class undergraduate degrees in both Drawing, and Contemporary Applied Arts, along with a prize-winning MRes in Gender Studies for work on Helen Chadwick”s uncatalogued archive at the Henry Moore Institute. Her own artwork is digitally archived at the Elizabeth Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum in New York. Helen”s work on drawing and gender has featured in many publications including The Guardian (“Britain is not radical enough”), Embroidery Magazine and Skin 2.