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Sally Fitchard is a ceramic sculptor living and working from her home and studio in Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire, UK. Speaking of her love of clay and fascination with the human subject, Sally reflects on her artistic journey so far and how people-watching- a skill adopted out of necessity as a military child switching schools every two years- continues to inform her practice.

This June, we caught up with Laura McMorrow a multi-disciplinary artist living and working in Leitrim, Ireland. Working across painting, collage, film and sculpture, Laura makes work that draws on nature. She has a Masters in Fine Art from the University of Ulster in Belfast, and in 2017 was awarded the Burren College of Art 'Emerging Irish Residency Award.'

We are absolutely delighted to be involved in the very first Art Without Walls an outdoor exhibition brought to you by Affordable Art Fair and Campari. Repurposing both digital and printed billboards as gallery walls, Art Without Walls is the UK's largest outdoor exhibition, running for two weeks across East London- from 13th-27th of June. Amongst the artists on show, are three of Broth's faves: Dan Jamieson, Jorunn Mulen and Jemma Tastard. So go explore and let us know if you spot them! 

Maureen Nathan is an artist who uses a multitude of mediums and materials to explore and respond to her surroundings. Born and raised on the west coast of Canada, Maureen settled in the UK as a young adult. She splits her time between her home and studio in North London and her workspace in rural Dorset. Her work has been shown with the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, The Royal Academy, Wells Art Contemporary and the Royal West of England Academy. 

To give our followers more insight into Maureen's practice, we made this short video. For further information about her work, click here to visit her profile on the Broth Art website.

As a woman and particularly one working in art, I've found the growing focus on women artists at galleries and museums absolutely exhilarating. Women's voices that just a decade ago were local and marginalised are now mainstream and global. Notably, large institutions like Tate have been programming considerably more women solo shows. The last edition of the Venice Biennale finally achieved gender equality after 124 years with 53% women artists. The museum show Artimesia at the National Gallery, the first major exhibition in the UK of Baroque painter Artimesia Gentileschi- who continues to be woefully left out of much of the historical canon- is another significant step towards better representation of women in art. It suddenly feels like the campaign for gender parity in the art world is picking up pace.............