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The latest exhibition from The Women’s Art Collection at Murray Edwards College offers a bold examination of how various artists have conjured and revered the figure of the goddess, including its reinvention as both a disembodied deity and mechanical cyborg. The works on display date from the 1970s to the present day and grapple with ideas relating to female-centred ‘goddess spirituality’ deriving from the second-wave women’s liberation movement. Admire the work of US artist Mary Beth Edelson, who pioneered ‘goddess feminism’ in the 1970s, to more contemporary artists like the painter Alicia Reyes McNamara, who sought to portray a figure undefined by gender or bodily form. It takes place from 8 March to 8 September at The Women’s Art Collection. The Goddess, the Deity and the Cyborg EXHIBITION
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