Women in Art with Katy Hessel and Lizzy Stewart
The Waterstones Podcast
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Celia Poole's Self-Portrait
Alison Smith's new book is about the life of artist Celia Poole. She used to perform these feminist monologues on a radio station called The Public Here. Her work upended every 60s pop depiction of Marilyn Monroe and made her her own. Ali Smith: I just wanted her to be a real person so much that that meant maybe she wasn't going to be brilliant, maybe people around her would be brilliant and more famous.
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