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Still counting: why the visual arts must do better on gender equality

The Conversation,
06 December 2017, Australia

You have to get more than a bit mad to single-handedly launch a campaign against inequality. At a recent forum, visual artist Elvis Richardson wryly described how anger was the catalyst that sparked her to start CoUNTess, a blog that assembles and reviews data on gender representation in Australia’s contemporary art scene.

http://theconversation.com/still-counting-why-the-visual-arts-must-do-better-on-gender-equality-87079

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