Lily Evans-Hill is a doctoral researcher and Associate Lecturer specialising in visual culture informed by feminist politics in Britain in the long 1970s.
Her research project ‘Feminist Group-work: The emergence of the Women Artists Slide Library, 1970-1982′ is supervised by Dr Catherine Grant and Dr Althea Greenan (Goldsmiths) and funded by CHASE/AHRC. Her research looks at women artists and their group work informed by women’s liberation across the 1970-1980s. It explores organising methods used by artists, and how they manifested in artists groups, publications and print cultures, centres and libraries, and in particular, the Women Artists Slide Library (now the Women’s Art Library). The slide registry, as a resource for artistic, curatorial and history work, enveloped key concerns of artists informed by feminism by creating networks of contemporary practicing artists and constituting new relational structures between women, raising consciousness about women’s art, and facilitating the writing of art histories informed by feminist politics.
Lily has published on moving image, print and visual cultures informed by feminism and has presented papers at the University of Cambridge, Paul Mellon Centre and Tate. In 2022, she was fellow at the Archives of American Art, where she researched women’s slide registries in the US. She currently teaches on the BA History of Art program at the Courtauld.
Research Activity
‘Working together: Making History’ project co-organised with Dr. Rachel Warriner. Funded by Research England, 2023.
Predoctoral Fellow at the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 2022.
Group work: Contemporary Art and Feminism (Courtauld Institute of Art and University of Cambridge)
Feminist and Queer Archives research network (co-convened with Hatty Nestor) 2019-2023.
Animating Archives, 2020-2021.
Feminist Duration Reading Group Working Group (2018-present).
Research Interests
- Feminism, women’s liberation and wider liberation movements
- Contemporary art
- Feminist informed methodologies and infrastructures
- The politics of identity and experience together
- Feminist informed pedagogical practices
- Political and creative models of collectivity
- Moving Image
- Expanded practices
Teaching
Radical Light: Moving Image since 1945
Sexual Politics
BA Foundations, Courtauld Institute of Art (2022-2023)
Critical Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London (2019-2020)
Producer, Young Peoples Programmes, Tate (2017-2020)
Conference Papers
‘Counterprint’, Women In Revolt: radical acts, contemporary resonances, Tate Britain, March 2024
‘West-East Bag and London’, Courtauld Institute of Art, May 2023
‘Negotiating the Feminist Group: Lizzie Borden’s Regrouping (1976)’ Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen symposium, May 2019
Publications
‘Criticism and Practice in a continuous dialogue: Women artists and their history work’ in ed. Victoria Horne, Counterprint: The Alternative Art Press in Britain after 1970 (Manchester University Press, 2024) forthcoming
‘Framing a slide registry: Towards a history of the Women Artists Slide Library’ in eds. Maryam Ohadi-Hamadani, Amy Tobin and Catherine Spencer, Grassroots: Artmaking and Political Struggle (Bloomsbury, 2025) forthcoming
‘Negotiating the Feminist Group, Lizzie Borden’s Regrouping 1976′, MIRAJ 11.2 (2023)
‘On Ana’s Archive’, Another Gaze Issue 03 (2019)
Education
MA History of Art, University College London (2017)
BA History of Art, Courtauld Institute of Art (2016)