Image-Makers, with Mary McCartney and Sonia Boyce

The idea of the artist’s muse conjures up a glamorous but passive woman portrayed by a male artist. Yet many women who are commonly identified as muses have been talents in their own right; they are creatively inspired as well as sources of inspiration for others. In this episode, photographer Mary McCartney, Golden Lion prize-winning artist Sonia Boyce, and the Daily Telegraph’s fashion director Lisa Armstrong sat down at Sotheby’s in London for a conversation celebrating female creativity, and how women have used art, fashion and photography to reframe the role of women in art as both subject and image-maker. To see the works discussed in this episode, or to watch an extended edition of this talk, visit And, to step further into the world of Sotheby’s, you can visit any of our galleries around the world; they’re open to the public. For more information, visit sothebys.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Image-Makers, with Mary McCartney and Sonia Boyce is an episode from Intelligence Squared Business.

This episode is 35:01 long.

This episode was published on Jan 14, 2024.

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