Women's Art Library (WAL)

Description

The Women's Art Library is a collection of material documenting art by women, founded in 1982 as the Women Artists Slide Library and now part of Special Collections and Archives at Goldsmiths, University of London. Its holdings span slides, artists' publications, exhibition ephemera, catalogues, audio and video tape, photographs and digital media, with sub-collections such as the Women of Colour Index and the archive of the Women's International Art Club (1900 to 1974). Before the collection came to Goldsmiths in the early 2000s, the organisation worked as an artists' organisation and published a magazine, Make. The collection has its own curator, and with the journal Feminist Review it has run the Art in the Archive Bursary since 2009, a themed award for artistic research using the collection, most recently awarded in 2026. It works with Goldsmiths CCA through the Joan Thewsey bequest, which supports exhibitions of women artists, and holds the archive of the Rita Keegan Archive Project, which has grown into the Rita Keegan Foundation.

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Founding year

1982

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University affiliation(s)

Goldsmiths, University of London
London

Partner Infrastructures

Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art (Goldsmiths CCA)

Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art is a free public gallery at Goldsmiths, University of London, showing international contemporary art by established and emerging artists. It opened in September … read more about Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art (Goldsmiths CCA)

London

Additional Partnerships

Feminist Review; Rita Keegan Foundation