Overturn art history as you know it with art historian and curator Katy Hessel – creator of popular podcast and Instagram account The Great Women Artists – in conversation with curator Beatrice Gralton.
About the author Katy Hessel
Katy Hessel is an art historian, curator, broadcaster, and author of The Story of Art without Men, an International Bestseller and Waterstones Book of the Year 2022. She runs @thegreatwomenartists, an Instagram account that has celebrated women artists on a daily basis since 2015, and hosts The Great Women Artists Podcast, where she has interviewed Tracey Emin and Marina Abramović. Katy has curated exhibitions across the globe, lectured at The National Gallery and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, presented radio and television programmes for the BBC, and writes a fortnightly column for The Guardian. She is a Visiting Fellow of Cambridge University.
Hosted by Beatrice Gralton
Beatrice Gralton is senior curator of contemporary Australian art and Brett Whiteley Studio at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. With over twenty years in Australian and international art museum roles, Beatrice has extensive collection management, exhibition production, commissioning and publishing experience. At the Art Gallery, she has curated Brett Whiteley: Inside the Studio (touring 2024–25), Brett Whiteley: Chapters 1959–69 (2023–24), The National 4: Australian Art Now (2023) and Brett Whiteley: Eternity is Now (2022–23). As head curator of visual art (2017–20) and curator of visual art (2012–17) at Carriageworks, Beatrice was responsible for major multidisciplinary projects, performances and exhibitions. She has held curatorial roles at the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, Washington, DC (2008–12) and the National Gallery of Australia (1999–2007). Beatrice has a degree in art history and curatorship with first class honours from the Australian National University and a masters in art administration and theory from UNSW Sydney.
