Exploring Project Progress and Wilhelmina Barns-Graham at Abergavenny Library Talk on Wilhelmina Barns-Graham at Abergavenny Library This month we had a last minute room change at the library and so we were in the Mayor's Parlour instead.  Great space, though I am looking forward to January when we’ll gather back on the Mezzanine.  What I particularly like about the mezzanine is its openness and how library users can stumble upon the sessions and listen in if they want.   We

Second talk in Abergavenny Library 25th October 2025, Second talk on the Mezzanine at Abergavenny Library We have a growing group of people attending the second talk, of all ages.  People from the last session came back, plus there were new faces. I was surprised and delighted to hear one attendee had delayed the start of her holiday to be there and the library staff had fielded many phone calls about the talk. This time I introduced the works of Elizabeth Frink, some in the

Fixing the Balance in Public Libraries First talk in series A certain calm has descended upon me since last Saturday as I began the journey that lies ahead with the series of talks at Abergavenny Library about my project Male stacks, Female gaps. Artist monographs in public libraries. In this first talk I introduced the pilot  project at Abergavenny Library,, to equalise the number of books on artist-women and artist-men, as well as the longer term aim to do this around the U