File Under Female is a collaborative project created by award winning Chesterfield artist Bella Milroy, Artist in Residence at the Women’s Art Library Goldsmiths, University of London.

The project, supported by the Women’s Art Library, Derbyshire Library Service and Chartered Institute of Library & Information Professionals and sponsored by Arts Council England, evolved during 2017 into an exhibition, publication and creative exchange event produced from her residency at the Women’s Art Library. It explores and celebrates the inspiring qualities of women artists’ archives made compelling by additional hand written texts and drawings found on top of, next to and along-side archived materials.

Milroy’s artwork reveals how discovering such unseen elements brings fresh insight into the careers and lives of those women artists and opens new ways of thinking about her own.

Our creative exchange event brings together the artists Bella Milroy, Gabrielle de la Puente and Zarina Muhammad of The White Pube along with Althea Greenan, Curator of the Women’s Art Library and Claire Collison an artist contributing to the Women’s Art Library archive, to share their inspiring experience of women’s archived artwork and emerging issues.

For more information go to www.fileunderfemale.com