Join curator and Cornish Maids founder Fran Rowse, Dr Jeanie Sinclair, feminist art historian, and artists from the exhibition to share insights into working in Cornwall and the network of women artists, ages 16 to 76 that the exhibition has brought together.
Fran Rowse is an award-winning Cornish photographer and curator. Working across photography, digital art, mixed media, and archival practice, her work centres on the overlooked lives and stories of women and girls in the South West of England. Rooted in lived experience as a former fisherwoman from a working-class background, her practice bridges rural communities and the art world through collaborative, socially engaged projects.
Dr Jeanie Sinclair is a feminist art historian researching gender, sexuality and modernism in Cornwall. Her work uses gossip, parties and oral histories to uncover hidden feminist and queer narratives of women’s creative work, collectivism and community. As senior lecturer at Falmouth University, she develops interdisciplinary research on archives, illustration and ceramics. In 2027 she will deliver the annual Wilhelmina Barns-Graham lecture.
