Women Groundbreakers
Resilience and Defiance Across History
Women Groundbreakers explores the lives and works of 33 women across the sciences, arts and humanities who devoted their lives to changing the world for the better. We travel around the world and back through the centuries to learn about the invention of Kevlar, the discovery of the earth’s solid core, the history of Abstract painting, the fight against malaria, the fight for civil rights in America, the very dawn of classical mathematics, our relationship with our ape ancestors, and countless other incredible discoveries and ideas…
Hypatia
Oil on silk | approx. 80 x 66 cm | 2020
Ada Lovelace
Oil on silk / faux silk | approx. 54 x 39 cm | 2021
Sofya Kovalevskaya
Oil on silk / faux silk | approx. 40 x 45 cm | 2022
Hilma Af Klint
Oil on silk | approx. 85 x 86 cm | 2021
Marie Curie
Oil on silk | approx. 70 x 88 cm | 2020
Lise Meitner
Oil on silk | approx. 119 x 117 cm | 2023
Inge Lehmann
Oil on silk | approx. 42 x 35 cm | 2021
Grace Hopper
Oil on silk | approx. 90 x 68 cm | 2020
Frida Kahlo
Oil on silk | approx. 80 x 95 cm | 2021
Martha Gellhorn
Oil on silk / faux silk | approx. 101 x 66 cm | 2022
Rita Levi-Montalcini
Oil on silk / faux silk | approx. 82 x 73 cm | 2022
Dorothy Hodgkin
Oil on silk | approx. 44 x 44 cm | 2021
Hedy Lamarr
Oil on silk | approx. 81 x 74 cm | 2020
Billie Holiday
Oil on silk | approx. 93 x 84 cm | 2023
Gertrude B. Elion
Oil on silk / faux silk | approx. 48 x 38 cm | 2022
Katherine Johnson
Oil on silk | approx. 48 x 35 cm | 2020
Rosalind Franklin
Oil on silk | approx. 78 x 67 cm | 2020
Marie Van Brittan Brown
Oil on silk | approx. 45 x 42 cm | 2021
Stephanie Kwolek
Oil on silk | approx. 99 x 72 cm | 2020
Maya Angelou
Oil on silk | approx. 95 x 82 cm | 2020
Anne Frank
Oil on silk / faux silk | approx. 53 x 53 cm | 2022
Yayoi Kusama
Oil and mixed media on silk | approx. 90 x 68 cm | 2021
Tu Youyou
Oil and mixed media on silk | approx. 87 x 72 cm | 2021
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Oil on silk | approx. 85 x 73 cm | 2022
Jane Goodall
Oil on silk | approx. 95 x 89 cm | 2021
Lynn Conway
Oil on silk | approx. 48 x 49 cm | 2022
Patricia Bath
Oil on silk | approx. 77 x 69 cm | 2020
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Oil on silk | approx. 39 x 36 cm | 2021
Flossie Wong-Staal
Oil on silk | approx. 39 x 47 cm | 2020
Marina Abramovic
Oil on silk / faux silk | approx. 68 x 89 cm | 2021
Ann Tsukamoto
Oil on silk | approx. 42 x 38 cm | 2020
Natalija Aleksandrova
Oil on silk / faux silk | approx. 98 x 85 cm | 2022
Malala Yousafzai
Oil on silk / faux silk | approx. 76 x 83 cm | 2022