FORBES: SOPHIE-YEN BRETEZ IN WOMEN ARTISTS ART WEEK

 

For one week every June, art galleries and institutions around the world commit to showing only female artists, with many offering special talks and events. Women Artists' Art Week (WAAW) was co-founded in 2022 in London by artist Annya Sand and art patron Catherine Hunt as a not for profit initiative to encourage the art industry to be more inclusive towards female artists and to address the imbalance of representation of female artists. From London, the annual event has gathered momentum, showing there is clearly a need for an annual event to highlight female artists.

 

JD Malat Gallery have an Artist Q&A 10 June, at 3pm by French-Vietnamese artist Sophie-Yen Bretez and the Gallery Director about Sophie's painting show Powerful, despite it all (until 8 July 2023). The artist's vibrant surrealist paintings elicit questions on self-expression and the social conformities imposed on women.