The Secret to a Good Life

'The Secret to a Good Life' was an exhibition at the Royal Academy of Art celebrating the life of the artist Deirdre Borlase. The underlying agenda of the exhibition was to celebrate women artists who have been overshadowed by history, their husbands or purely sexist intolerance. Deirdre Borlase graduated from the Royal College of Art in 1946 and had a prolific career. She is the mother of Bob and Roberta Smith (my husband). Alongside paintings by Deirdre Borlase were 3 large scale collaborative sculptures by Smith, myself and our daughter Etta Voorsanger-Brill. According to Deirdre Borlase "The secret to a good life is to get a good pencil a 2B or 4B. You don't want an HB, those are for architects!" Borlase passed away in July 2018 and did not see the exhibition realised

Gestures of Resistance

Gestures of Resistance aims to respond to our current general mood of political anxiety and alienation by opening up socio-political critique in order to resist the palpable feeling of disempowerment. Rather than accepting the non-choice of the neoliberal setup of Greece or current right-wing politics both in America and Europe, the artists of Gestures of Resistance reflect on the current state of our political condition, our current housing situation, the state of education and art, liberalism, diversity and pluralism in this moment of historical crisis, whereby the state of today seems to have strong links to the state of the past.As part of Gestures of Resistance, artworks by sixteen international contemporary artists will be exhibited at the Romantso Cultural Centre in Athens during Documenta 14. From photographs and collages to sculptures and installations, each artist has an agenda and political take – some subtle and cryptic, some openly confrontational