Alicia Foster | Art UK

Alicia Foster is an art historian, curator and novelist. Her first novel Warpaint was published by Penguin Figtree in 2013. It tells the story of four women artists employed by the British government during 1942–1943, making official war art and black propaganda.

Previous publications include the monograph Gwen John (Tate, third edition, 2015); the first complete survey of women represented in Tate collections Tate Women Artists (Tate, 2004) and in 2019 Radical Women: Jessica Dismorr and her Contemporaries (Lund Humphries) accompanying an exhibition at Pallant House Gallery.

Alicia has a PhD in Art History and spent a number of years as a lecturer, teaching fine art students about art history and the practice of writing.

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Image credit: National Portrait Gallery, London

Jessica Dismorr:…
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© National Portrait Gallery, London. Image credit: National Portrait Gallery, London

Pioneering, modernist…
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Image credit: National Portrait Gallery, London

Mary Beale:…
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© the artist's estate / Bridgeman Images. Image credit: Courtesy of Piano Nobile, Robert Travers (Works of Art) Ltd

Gorgeously nuanced…
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Image credit: Bridgeman Images

Bohemians revisited:…
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'Laughing Torso: Reminiscences of Nina Hamnett' and 'Is She a Lady?: A Problem in Autobiography'. 1932 and 1955, front covers of books by Nina Hamnett, published by Time Warner Books UK and Allan Wingate. Image credit: Good Reads and Pallant House Gallery

Nina Hamnett: portraying the spirit of her age
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Dorothy Mead. photograph. © Bryan Long. Image credit: courtesy of Val and Bryan Long

Dorothy Mead: the truth ben…
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Evelyn Gibbs. 1940s, unknown photographer. Image credit: Goldsmiths, University of London

In praise of teachers: the art and writing of Evelyn Gibbs
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Women students at the Slade School of Fine Art. 1905, photograph by unknown photographer. Image credit: Slade School of Fine Art

Facing the new century: women artists 1900–1909
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Kate Lechmere posing with her painting Buntem Vogel at the Rebel Art Centre. March, 1914, by unknown photographer published in the Evening Standard. Image credit: Flashpoint Magazine

Fighting for emancipation: women artists 1910–1919
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The General Strike. 1926, photograph by unknown artist. Image credit: public domain (source: Historic UK)

Women artists of the 1920s: politics…
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