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Join us for a lively debate with artist Fran Cottell and art critic Katy Deepwell. They will discuss the why and when of feminist art publishing and what a re-examination of the past can give to the present.
KT press is delighted to celebrate the launch two new books at this event; Fran Cottell and Marian Schoettle’s Conceptual Clothing Revisited (2025) and Katy Deepwell’s Conversations on Art, Artworks and Feminism (2025). Both books are centred on interviews with artists and curators and, at the same time, offer reprints of articles from earlier publications to create new contexts for feminist debates in contemporary art today.
Conceptual Clothing was an Ikon Gallery touring exhibition, 1986-1988, with 23 artists, curated by Fran Cottell and Marian Schoettle. Conversations on Art, Artworks and Feminism is a collection of Katy Deepwell’s interviews with over thirty women artists, curators and founders of feminist art organisations from n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal, 1996-2017.
ABOUT KT PRESS
KT press is a not-for-profit feminist art publishing company that began in 1998. In addition to publishing n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal, its website houses the Feminist-Art-Observatory, the largest online resource on feminist art internationally, as well as the archive of the journal’s print and online articles. KT press has produced a series of print books, including 50 Feminist Art Manifestos (2022) and De-/Anti-/Post-Colonial Feminisms in Contemporary Art and Textile Craft (2023). This is in addition to 2 MOOCs (mass open online courses) on feminism and contemporary art (2018) and feminist art manifestos (2022) and a series of ebooks, (2012-2014).
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Fran Cottell is an artist based in London, who has been producing installations and performances since the 1970s. Her book, Fran Cottell: House Projects (KT press, 2020) documents and reflects on public installations in her home over twenty years and the tensions between public and private they reveal. These public walkways through the home were recently adapted for a re-usable runway for Lemaire (Paris 2024/5). Her latest and future projects include BARKING 2023 and THE FLOOD (November/December 2025) for Sandie Macrae / postROOM London; the alternative access routes/logic used through the house now employing environmental forces.
Katy Deepwell is an art critic based in London. Katy Deepwell is the founder and editor of KT press and n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal (1996-2017). Recent work includes essays on global feminist theory in relation to contemporary art, feminist art criticism, Monica Sjoo, representation of witches, feminist art and religious themes, as well as transnational histories of feminist art. She has recently edited 2 volumes on Re-Evaluation in Feminism and Contemporary Art (forthcoming Vernon Press, late 2025-2026). From October 2025-March 2026, she will be a research fellow at Global dis: connect, Kate Hamburger Research Center, Ludwig Maximilians Universitat, Munich.
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