Barbara Steveni: I Find Myself – a pioneering artist who influenced the civil service

By Martin Lang, Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader in Fine Art , University of Lincoln

Barbara Steveni (1928-2020) was a pioneering artist who broke boundaries with new concepts such as “the artist as a living archive” and “art as social strategy”. The legacy of her 70-year career is explored in a new exhibition, Barbara Steveni: I Find Myself, at Modern Art Oxford.

Steveni was an activist whose art had real-world impacts. One of her pioneering works was the foundation of the Artists…

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