Who are the great women printmakers?

From Cassatt to Kollwitz and Kruger to Kusama, the art of printmaking has been a catalyst for revolution in women’s artistic expression.

The fascinating lives of diverse and historic women artists, and their use of a range of printmaking techniques from engraving to digital art, are revisited and reframed.

The book also explores the importance of printing in women’s activism via artworks, pamphlets, posters and zines.

Includes over 20 interviews with contemporary women printmakers, providing unique insights into their practices, themes and personal motivation.

Interviewees include:

UK based Artists/Interviewees

Nana Shiomi (London & Japan)

Veta Gorner (London and Europe)

Loraine Monk (London)

Mila Fürstová (Cheltenham)

See Red Women’s Workshop (UK – London?)

Rebecca Vincent (Northumberland)

Gail Brodholt (London)

Anita Klein (London & Italy)

Jane Daniell (London)

Richenda Court (London)

Amarjeet K Nandhra (London)

Fiona Watson (Glasgow)

UK based Image Contributors

Sarah Bays (Norfolk)

Pamela Grace 

Louise Hayward (London)

Anna Marrow (Bristol)

Louise Stebbing (Norfolk)

Annie Williams (London)

Europe based Artists/Interviewees

Annemarie Petri (Netherlands)

Diana de Brito (Portugal)

US based Artists/Interviewees

Kiki Smith

Tanekeya Word

Julie Buffalohead

Latoya M. Hobbs

Ellen Heck

Leslie Nichols

Australia based Artist/Interviewee

Anne Starling

Ukraine based Artist/Interviewee

Olesya Dzhurayeva

About the author:

P.L. HENDERSON

P.L. Henderson was born in the North of England and now lives in Lisbon, Portugal. She is an art historian and freelance writer who regularly contributes to publications on art, ecological issues and wider culture. Her research into the subject of women artists led to her creation and curation of the successful and ongoing social media project: @womensart1 (X, formerly twitter) and WOMENSART blog to platform the work of women artists.

Whilst having a case study published in the book Feminism and Museums, Intervention, Disruption and Change (2017), she was also one of the writing team for Phaidon’s book Great Women Artists (2019) and also Great Women Painters (2022). She has also written her own successful books about art: Unravelling Women’s Art; Creators, Rebels & Innovators in Textile Arts (Aurora Metro/Supernova Books 2020) and Unlocking Women’s Art: Pioneers, Visionaries & Radicals of Paint (Aurora Metro/Supernova Books 2023).

www.womensartblog.wordpress.com. The references for this book can be found here. https://www.aurorametro.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Bibliography-and-Reference-for-Reframing-Women-Printmakers.pdf