Guerrilla Girls
Bringing together art and activism, Guerrilla Girls is an all-female collective who remain anonymous by wearing gorilla masks and naming themselves after famous dead women artists. Formed in New York in 1985 to fight discrimination and corruption in the art world, the group use facts, humour, and outrageous visuals to promote their messages. They have produced hundreds of posters, billboards, books, stickers, animations, and actions – not just about art, but also covering politics, film, war, and more.
The collective has a long history with Tate, with the gallery having collected and shown their work for over 20 years. In 2023 a free display of their archive opened, followed by a takeover of the Tate Edit shop, offering a range of merchandise and books, exclusively designed or selected by the Guerrilla Girls.
Frances Morris
Frances Morris was Director of Tate Modern from 2016 until earlier in 2023. Frances Morris has played a key role in establishing Tate, and particularly Tate Modern, as one of the most important and popular galleries of modern art in the world.
After a distinguished academic training at Cambridge and the Courtauld Institute, she joined Tate as a young curator in 1987, and when Tate Modern opened, took on the responsibility of introducing an entirely new way of seeing the national collection of modern and contemporary art, first as Head of Displays (2000-2006), and then Director of International Collections, until she took over as Director in 2016. During her career at Tate, Frances was responsible for expanding and diversifying the collection and organising several major retrospectives on female artists.
