Remembering Artemis

Remembering ARTEMIS brings together a series of texts discussing the ARTEMIS Women's Art Forum INC, an organisation devoted to raising the status of women in the arts in Perth, in the late 1980s. ARTEMIS began as a series of informal meetings and eventually grew into an organisation with close to 300 members before losing its funding in 1990. The rise and fall of ARTEMIS unfolded amid a 'golden age' of creativity in Western Australia that fostered experimentation and collaborations between disciplines and a boom of activism and political awareness, particularly among women. This collection aims to examine an under-recognised history of Western Australian feminist art practice.Contributors include Penny Bovell, Michele Elliot, Anne Jeppe, Pam Kleeman, Linda Rawlings, Taylor Reudavey, Zoe Sofia and Terri-ann White. Remembering ARTEMIS was produced to accompany an exhibition, "No Second Thoughts: Reflections on the ARTEMIS Women's Art Forum" at the University of Western Australia.