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Helen Gorrill is a British artist, lecturer, curator, and art historian. Her work examines and reverses the submissiveness of women advocated in organized religions, particularly in regards to Christianity and depiction of the Virgin Mary. She graduated with a PhD in Contemporary British Painting in 2016

Dr Gorrill's work is included in private and public collections around the world, including in the New York Brooklyn Museum's Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art's digital archive. Gorrill's international artist residencies(accomplished/confirmed) include Paris (2011), Isle of Skye (2012), the Czech Republic (2012), Paris (2013), Milan (2013), Naples/Ischia (2013), New York (2013), New York - Brooklyn (2014).'

Helen Gorrill is a Regional Coordinator in the UK for The Feminist Art Project, a Rutger's University based international collaborative initiative celebrating the Feminist Art Movement and the aesthetic, intellectual, and political impact women have held on the visual arts, art history, and art practice. She is the author of three books, forthcoming. Her doctoral research discovered the emergence of a new 'Androgynous Aesthetics' in contemporary British painting since the 1990s

Gorrill's work has been the subject of some controversy. In 2009 her degree show, featuring drawings inspired by religious pamphlets that featured dominant women and sexually submissive men, was censored. Guardian writer Henry Porter wrote, "The male figures have been censored but to protect whom? The spam I receive contains more indecency than Ms Gorrill's work. And it is much less interesting because she makes a valid point."

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Helen Gorrill Wikipedia