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Left to right: Stephanie Radok, Celia Paul, Gwen John.

December 23, 2025

Celia Paul and Stephanie Radok have devoted their lives to making art – and writing about it

Carol Lefevre, University of Adelaide

Celia Paul’s extraordinary, art-focused life is captured in two brilliant autobiographies. Stella longlisted Stephanie Radok makes the ordinary special in her art.

In the cases of both sculptor Camille Claudel (1864-1943) and Britney Spears, we see situations where talented women were declared mentally unfit after family interventions. (Wikimedia Commons/CP PICTURE ARCHIVE/Paul Chiasson)

August 3, 2021

Britney Spears’s conservatorship alludes to an older story of controlling women artists

Margot Irvine, University of Guelph

Family members seeking to control women artists isn’t new. In the 1920s, doctors thought sculptor Camille Claudel could be released from the care of an asylum, but her family refused.

The Thinker by Auguste Rodin. Sputnik/Alamy

June 30, 2021

Why this Rodin scholar would gladly see the back of The Thinker

Natasha Ruiz-Gómez, University of Essex

All muscles and sensuous flesh, its hyper and toxic masculinity puts this Rodin scholar off the artist’s most famous artwork.

Part of Auguste Rodin’s Pierre de Wissant, monumental nude, c.1886–87.

March 1, 2017

Here’s looking at Rodin’s Pierre de Wissant, monumental nude

Ted Snell, The University of Western Australia

Our empathy for the anguished subject of this sculpture is heightened because although cast in bronze he is so tantalisingly human.

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