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2024
Digital billboards
2 of 7 from
Women and Power
With Rebecca Salter PRA, President Royal Academy of Arts
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February 2024
UK-wide
Artist Rebecca Salter is the first woman to be President of the Royal Academy of Arts in its 255-year history.
As a young artist, Rebecca chose to continue her postgraduate studies in Japan.
Fall Down 7 Times, Stand Up 8
is based on a Japanese proverb, much admired by Rebecca as a powerful evocation of tenacity.
The
Women and Power
series explores the way women gain, regard and exercise power. The work was created in conversation with 7 women who have experience of holding power in arts, literature, heritage and culture:
Rebecca Salter, President Royal Academy of Arts;
Carolyn McCall, CEO ITV;
Ngozi Fulani, CEO Sistah Space;
Maggi Hambling, painter and sculptor;
Joanne Harris, novelist and Chair, Society of Authors;
Julia Hoggett, CEO London Stock Exchange;
Heather Hancock, Master of St John's College Cambridge.
From L to R: Dame Carolyn McCall, CEO ITV; Rebecca Salter PRA, President Royal Academy of Arts; Martin Firrell.
