Andrew Shore

Oil and pencil artwork showing a town surrounded by water, people cross the bridge and climb onto a boat in the foreground. Other people wave from the banks.

Our A-Z resource of 1,000 women artists features only a fraction of the women artists on Art UK.

Here's G: Gabain to Guthrie 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/curations/an-a-z-of-1000-women-artists-represented-on-art-uk-gabain-to-guthrie-18090

🧑‍🎨 Flora A. P. Glover 📸 Laing Art Gallery

A group of people seated in a spacious, sunlit room, engaged in knitting and conversation around a central table with hats on display.

Abstract painting featuring geometric shapes and vibrant colours blending patterns and forms.

Happy #InternationalWomensDay! Here's to celebrating, exploring, researching and enjoying art made by women ❤️

Discover women artists on Art UK 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/art-terms/women-artists

1) Evelyn Dunbar (1906–1960) 📸 IWM
2) Eileen Agar (1899–1991) © the artist's estate / Bridgeman. 📷 RA

A painted portrait of a lady, she wears a bonnet and scarf, with a cigarette in her hand.

Our A-Z resource highlights 1,000 women artists, giving you a place to start exploring.

Here's F 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/curations/an-a-z-of-1000-women-artists-represented-on-art-uk-faithful-to-fuller-18091

Elsie Farleigh (1900–1981)© the artist's estate. 📷 Lakeland Arts

#WomensHistoryMonth

An interior of a hallway, with an arch, and a door in the background. A dog lies on a floral rug.

Women artists have been overlooked throughout history.

Our A-Z resource highlights 1,000 women artists. Here's E 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/curations/an-a-z-of-1000-women-artists-represented-on-art-uk-eardley-to-evans-18092

🧑‍🎨 Mary Dawson Elwell (1874–1952) 📷 Bradford Museums

#WomensHistoryMonth

Detailed illustration of a ripe pineapple with green leaves, surrounded by butterflies, a caterpillar, and small red insects on a light background.

When women were expected to paint flowers as decoration, Maria Merian chose to study them.

Read 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/maria-sibylla-merian-butterflies-botanicals-and-the-birth-of-scientific-illustration

#WomensHistoryMonth #IWD

Maria Merian (1647-1717) 📷 Royal College of Physicians

With a million artworks on Art UK, you'll probably find an artwork for pretty much anything!

Join Verity Babbs as she explores some of the more niche events in the calendar, first up is British Pie Week 🥧

'A Village Bakehouse' by Elizabeth Adela Forbes (1859–1912) 📷 Penlee House Gallery & Museum

Six women bale hay with a red hay baling machine

Evelyn Dunbar was the only woman commissioned by the War Artists' Advisory Committee.

Discover D in our A-Z of women artists 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/curations/an-a-z-of-1000-women-artists-represented-on-art-uk-dabis-to-dwight-18093

🧑‍🎨 Evelyn Mary Dunbar (1906–1960) 📸 Museum Wales

19th-century portrait of a seated woman wearing a long black dress with a high collar and long sleeves. Her brown hair is tied up on top of her head. The background is unfinished

Our A-Z resource highlights 1,000 women artists.

Here is C 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/curations/an-a-z-of-1000-women-artists-represented-on-art-uk-cadman-to-cuthill-18094

'Portrait of a Woman' by Mary Cassatt (1844–1926) 📸 Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery

#WomensHistoryMonth

Happy St Piran's Day 🎉

What connects these artworks – Terry Frost's 'Brown Harbour' and James Gillray's amusing caricature? And how do they link up to Cornwall?

👉 Watch to find out!

Art Connections videos: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAUSr8y0X9vh0iieCXPyj7Fh3rout0P-X&si=PJEqCgcFzpUBbhyd

Abstract red painting with lines and shapes

Our A-Z resource highlights 1,000 women artists to discover.

Here's B 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/curations/an-a-z-of-1000-women-artists-represented-on-art-uk-baer-to-butler-18095

'Red Painting' by Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (1912–2004) © Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Trust

#WomensHistoryMonth

A young girl in a pinafore dress is standing by a round table blowing bubbles.

Our A-Z resource highlights 1,000 women artists, giving you a place to start exploring.

Here's A 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/curations/an-a-z-of-1000-women-artists-represented-on-art-uk-aaerens-to-ayrton-18096

'Bubbles' by Amy B. Atkinson (1859–1916) 📷 Manchester Art Gallery

#WomensHistoryMonth

A decade of delightful art 🧡

Here are ten things that have changed on Art UK in our first ten years 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/a-decade-of-delightful-art-celebrating-art-uks-tenth-birthday

'Dressing for a birthday' by Thomas Rowlandson (1757–1827) 📷 The Fitzwilliam Museum

New primary learning resource ✨

This resource from The Superpower of Looking explores Ulster Museum's ‘Daylight Raid from My Studio Window’, painted by Belfast-born John Lavery during the First World War.

Check it out 👉 https://ow.ly/P8w550YnU3q

There are thousands of women artists on Art UK, have an explore for #WomensHistoryMonth 👩‍🎨

Filter artists by gender, discover our A-Z of women artists, or read stories 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/art-terms/women-artists

'Self Portrait' by Barbara Walker (b.1964) © the artist. 📷 Usher Gallery

Self portrait of Gwen John, she looks at the viewer, wearing red

Dydd Gwyl Dewi Hapus ❤️

Here are sixteen wonderful Welsh artists to fall in love with on #StDavidsDay 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/sixteen-wonderful-welsh-artists

'Self-Portrait' by Gwen John (1876–1939) 📷 Tate

To celebrate our 10th birthday, we have a bumper edition of our quiz – ten questions about various aspects of Art UK!

👉 https://artukdotorg.quillforms.app/forms/art-quiz-art-uk-is-ten/

'Cardiff Castle with Daffodils' by Anna Todd (b.1964). © the artist. 📷 Cardiff and Vale University Health Board

A figure strides through a hilly landscape

In celebration of #StDavidsDay, here are six works of art that explore the beauty and resilience of yr iaith Gymraeg (the Welsh language) 💫

👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/yma-o-hyd-six-works-about-the-welsh-language

'O. M.' by Iwan Bala (b.1956) © the artist. 📷 National Library Wales

A decade of delightful art: celebrating Art UK's tenth birthday Art UK is ten! We launched the platform on 24th February 2016, and a decade on, we take a look at ten things that have changed

A decade of delightful art 🧡

Here are ten things that have changed on Art UK in our first ten years 👉 artuk.org/discover/sto...

''Minnie the Minx' and Birthday Cake' by Tom Elliott (b.1965) © the artist. 📷 CW+

A cosy dining room with a table set for tea, featuring cakes, pastries and teacups on a floral tablecloth.

Happy 10th birthday Art UK 🎉 #ArtUK10thBirthday

On our birthday we have reached a huge one million artworks on Art UK!

Discover more and celebrate with us 👉 https://artuk.org/

🧑‍🎨 Peggy Angus (1904–1993) © estate of Peggy Angus. All rights reserved, 2026 DACS. 📷 City of London Corporation

Ben Terrett CBE is Art UK's new Chair Discover artworks, explore venues and meet artists. Art UK is the online home for every public collection in the UK, featuring 1,000,000 artworks by over 70,000 artists.

On Art UK's 10th birthday, we are delighted to announce that Ben Terrett CBE will become Art UK's new Chair 🎉

This is an exciting time for the charity as Art UK reaches one million artworks!

Read more 👉 artuk.org/discover/sto...

#ArtUK10thBirthday

Woman in a dark dress with lace collar and a red rose corsage pinned near her neckline against a muted brown background.

Art UK launched on the 24th of February 2016 🎉

Here are ten people that share the same birthday as Art UK 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/curations/ten-people-that-share-the-same-birthday-as-art-uk

'Lydia Becker (1827–1890)' by Susan Isabel Dacre (1844–1933) 📷 Manchester Art Gallery

To celebrate our 10th birthday, we have a bumper edition of our quiz – ten questions about various aspects of Art UK!

👉 https://artukdotorg.quillforms.app/forms/art-quiz-art-uk-is-ten/

'Cardiff Castle with Daffodils' by Anna Todd (b.1964). © the artist. 📷 Cardiff and Vale University Health Board

A cosy dining room with a table set for tea, featuring cakes, pastries and teacups on a floral tablecloth.

Happy 10th birthday Art UK 🎉 #ArtUK10thBirthday

On our birthday we have reach a huge one million artworks on Art UK!

Discover more and celebrate with us 👉 https://artuk.org/

🧑‍🎨 Peggy Angus (1904–1993) © estate of Peggy Angus. All rights reserved, 2026 DACS. 📷 City of London Corporation

Scotland's art collections are full of surprises.

Read about some o Scotland’s strangest acquisitions in this new story 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/scotlands-strangest-acquisitions-tales-of-taste-chance-and-unlikely-journeys

🧑‍🎨 John Emms (1843-1912) 📷 National Galleries of Scotland

What links Shrove Tuesday, pancakes and carnival? | Art UK Pancake Day: time for some flipping fun. But why?

It's Pancake Day 🥞

What links Shrove Tuesday, pancakes and carnival?

Find out 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/what-links-shrove-tuesday-pancakes-and-carnival

📷 Victoria and Albert Museum

Animals of the Chinese zodiac | Art UK Every year, millions of people across the world gather with family and friends to celebrate the Lunar New Year (sometimes known as Chinese New Year). In Chinese tradition, each year is designated one of twelve animals – this is known in the west as the Chinese zodiac.

It's the Year of the Horse 🐴

Celebrate the Lunar New Year with the animals of the Chinese zodiac in art 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/animals-of-the-chinese-zodiac

'Whistlejacket' by George Stubbs (1724–1806) 📷 National Gallery

A young child in a white dress embraces a large black dog sitting on a green cushioned stool in a warmly lit room.

Three women sit closely, one with a hand raised near their face, against a backdrop of colourful flowers and draped curtains.

Abstract sculpture of two intertwined human figures embracing.

Happy Palentine's Day! 💗

1) 'The Friends' by Thomas Duncan (1807–1845) 📷 Royal Scottish Academy

2) 'Conversation' by Vanessa Bell (1879–1961) © estate of Vanessa Bell. All rights reserved, 2026 DACS. 📷 Courtauld

3) 'Fisherman and Friend' by Mark Guest (b.1971) © the artist. 📷 Jersey Heritage

Abstract painting with red grid background featuring two large, loosely sketched shapes in white, green, and pink hues, including a heart.

Art UK is nearly 10 years old! Help us celebrate by sharing your thoughts: www.surveymonkey.com/r/9QTF65S

The survey asks two questions:
👉 What do you love most about Art UK?
👉 Finish the sentence: 'Art UK makes me feel...'

🧑‍🎨 Su Trembath (b.1965) © the artist. 📷 Edinburgh College of Art

Black wooden cottage with bright yellow window frames under a clear blue sky in a rural garden setting.

Small green plants and moss growing in a circular pattern surrounded by evenly spaced gray stones on gravel ground.

Why is Derek Jarman's personal undertaking to create a sculpture garden so significant? #LGBTplusHM

Artist and writer Robert Priseman explores 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/derek-jarmans-garden-a-heart-of-creativity

🧑‍🎨 Robert Priseman (b.1965) © the artist. 📷 Priseman Seabrook Collections

A corridor of buildings with LGBTQ+ flags hanging

We've gathered some learning resources from museums and galleries to support teachers in planning lessons for #LGBTplusHM - and throughout the year 👉 https://artuk.org/learn/learning-resources/lgbtq-resources

🧑‍🎨 Guillaume Vandame (b.1991) © the artist. 📷 Nick Turpin/Sculpture in the City