Dr Katy Deepwell (UK) is a writer/ art critic, art historian. She is the founder,
publisher and editor of n.paradoxa:international feminist art journal.
n.paradoxa was started in December 1996 (online) and went into print as a bi-
annual edition in 1998. The print form (published in January and July) has
different material from the online version:
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/n.paradoxa/.
Each version has a different strategy for publication and contains distinct and
separate material. n.paradoxa remains the only international feminist art
journal in the world which focuses on women artists internationally (visual
arts only) and develops readings of their works from feminist perspectives.
N.=noun. Para=beyond, doxa= accepted opinion.
The title also refers to feminism, a noun, as a paradoxical object of research.
The name is derived from Donna Haraway’s discussion of michotrixia paradoxa,
a parasite found in the gut of a termite in South Australia. In her work,
discovering this parasite and its habits of reproduction became a metaphor for
the necessary determination and quality of feminist research.
Katy Deepwell has participated in many conferences worldwide and written
numerous articles and essays on contemporary feminist art. She gave a lecture
for Manifesta 4 in Frankfurt in 2002 and spoke about n.paradoxa at the
Kunstlerhaus, Bremen in Jan 2003. In July 2002, an interview with her was
published in Art Journal (USA) about her work as the founding editor of
n.paradoxa and the state of feminist research in art criticism today.
Katy Deepwell has edited three books, ‘Women Artists and Modernism' (Manchester
University Press, 1998); ‘Art Criticism and Africa’ (London: Eastern Arts
Publishing, 1997); ‘New Feminist Art Criticism: Critical Strategies’
(Manchester University Press, 1995). Her latest book, ‘Dialogues: Women Artists
from Ireland’ (Ireland: Gandon Editions, forthcoming 2003) is a collection of
interviews with 16 women artists.
Recent essays by her are included in Sanja Ivekovic’s Frauenhaus (exhibition
catalogue: Zagreb: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2003); 'Challenging the
Indifference to Difference: The Invention of Feminist Art Criticism' in Jean-
Marc Poinsot (ed) The Invention of Art Criticism (France: Archives d'Art
Contemporain, Chateaugiron, University of Rennes,2002); ‘Parallel and Plural
Narratives’ Public/Private Bratislava : Soros Centre, August 2001;‘Text and
Subtexts’ Binghui Huangfu (ed) Text and Subtext. Earl-Lu Gallery,Lasalle-SIA
College of Arts. A book which accompanied the International Touring Exhibition
of Contemporary Asian Women Artists, curated by Binghui Huangfu.
(June,2000); ‘Women,Representation and Speculations on the End of
History ’Painting’ in N.Green and P.Seddon (ed) History Painting Reassessed
(Manchester University Press, October, 2000).
In April 1992, she curated Ten Decades: The Careers of Ten Women Artists born
1897-1906, (Exhibition Catalogue of Arts Council Touring Exhibition, Norwich
Gallery, NIAD, April 1992) from her Phd research on women artists in Britain
between the Two World Wars, 1918-1945.
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01.01.2003
Resident artists 2003