10 Female Creatives To Follow This Women’s History Month
By Something CuratedMarking Women’s History Month, Something Curated highlights ten inspiring female creatives you should follow this March, covering a breadth of fields, including music, art, fashion, architecture and food.
Frida Escobedo, Architect || @fridaescobedo
In 2018, Mexican architect Frida Escobedo was named as the Serpentine Pavilions’ youngest designer, and first woman to take on the project since Zaha Hadid in 2000. She studied Architecture at Universidad Iberoamericana, and later Art and Design and the Public Domain at Harvard University. The Mexico City native established her own architectural practice in her town in 2006, after serving as co-director at Perro Rojo for four years. Since then, her work, which focuses on redesigning forgotten urban spaces, has earned numerous accolades.
Supriya Lele, Fashion Designer || @supriya_lele
British-Asian fashion designer Supriya Lele explores the female form through the distinct lense of her cultural identity. Lele launched her brand after graduating with a Masters from London’s Royal College of Art in 2016. Prior to pursuing fashion, Lele studied architecture in Edinburgh for a year. The designer made her London Fashion Week debut with Fashion East for AW17, and more recently made a runway appearance with the support of the initiative.
Masha Batsea, Artist & Musician || @mashabatsea
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Born in Ukraine, Masha Batsea has lived in Moscow, Kiev and New York, before relocating to Berlin, then London. Used to the rapid change of settings and contexts, she channels the impact of contemporary culture on our lives and sense of self. Exploring identity and sexuality in the digital age in her work, among other matters, Batsea outputs span the visual arts, film and music.
Nieves Barragán Mohacho, Chef || @sabor_ldn
Nieves Barragán Mohacho grew up in the Basque region of Spain, in the capital city of Bilbao. From a young age she was aware of food and cooking. The key to Nieves’ success in her kitchens is to keep things original but remain faithful to the principles of regional Spanish cooking and to use meticulously sourced, seasonal produce. Her restaurant, Sabor, meaning ‘flavour’ in Spanish, focuses on the tastes of Spain, through the use of traditional ingredients and cooking methods, and a relaxed approach to dining.
Nadine Ijewere, Photographer || @nadineijewere
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South-East London native Nadine Ijewere strives to champion diversity and underrepresented women in her photography. The Jamaican-Nigerian creative studied fashion photography at the London College of Fashion, where she completed her well-received body of work, The Misrepresentation of Representation. Since then, Ijewere has worked with i-D, Vogue, Selfridges, Gap, Ray Ban, Nike, Dazed, and more. Her work was exhibited at the Tate Britain Generation Exhibition in 2016, and at Unseen Amsterdam and Lagos Photo Festival in 2017.
Hannah Barry, Gallerist || @hannahbarrygallery
Hannah Barry has been instrumental in creating the now thriving art scene in Peckham. Having worked with the influential art dealer Anthony d’Offay in her early twenties, Barry launched Bold Tendencies, the site-specific art foundation that transforms a ten-story car park into a space of public art, sculpture, dance and performance, with Sven Mündner in 2007, which has attracted half a million visitors to date. Her eponymous gallery in Peckham was the first to appear in the area, and represents artists like George Rouy, James Capper and Marie Jacotey.
Maia Ruth Lee, Artist || @maia_ruth_lee
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Raised in Nepal by Korean missionary parents, New York-based Maia Ruth Lee is a multidisciplinary artist, working across painting, sculpture, jewellery design, and more. She’s now also the Director of Wide Rainbow, a non-profit after-school arts programme which introduces local middle- and high-school girls to visual arts through workshops with female artists and gallery and museum visits.
Anthea Hamilton, Artist
In 2017, Turner Prize nominee Anthea Hamilton became the first black woman to be awarded a commission to create a work for Tate Britain’s Duveen Galleries, and according to Alex Farquharson, Tate Britain’s director, Hamilton has made a “unique contribution to British and international art with her visually playful and thoughtful works”. Hamilton has taken over the gallery this year with her six-month-long installation, The Squash. The performative piece comprises a “squash-human” hybrid, who, each day, will dress in one of seven colourful costumes, moving erratically about the white-tiled space.
Laura Dominique, Make-Up Artist || @lauradomini2
Laura Dominique is a London based make-up artist. Starting her career as a make-up consultant for Parfum Christan Dior in the late 90s, she then began freelancing in Sydney, Australia, before relocating to London where she became first assistant to Val Garland. Dominique’s work has appeared in publications such as AnOther and Vogue. She has worked with eminent artists and personalities including Keira Knightley, Bjork, Gwyneth Paltrow, Lady Gaga, Cara Delevingne and Thom Yorke.
Saoirse Ronan, Actress
Irish-American actress Saoirse Ronan was the youngest actress to receive an Oscar nomination for her role in Atonement (2007). More recently, Ronan, who was born in The Bronx but raised in Dublin, received critical acclaim for playing a homesick Irish girl in 1950s New York in the romantic drama Brooklyn (2015) and the titular role of a high school senior in Greta Gerwig’s coming-of-age film Lady Bird (2017). She won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for the latter and earned nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress for both films.
Feature image: Frida Escobedo, El Eco Pavilion, 2010, Mexico City, Photography: Rafael Gamo (Courtesy Serpentine Galleries)