The team at Void Art Centre are delighted to invite you to the preview of Barbara Steveni, I Find Myself, curated by Gareth Bell-Jones, opening on Saturday 17th January 2026, from 5.30 – 7.30pm.
The life and work of Barbara Steveni (1928–2020), who described herself as an artist–activist, embodied an archive and pioneered a diffused art practice that resists clear definition. Invisible threads interlink the various roles she played in the contexts within which she was situated and responding to. As with other women artists of her generation she combined childrearing and managing domestic chores with the production of work, and was frequently overshadowed by her male partner’s success. The importance of Steveni’s role in the Artist Placement Group (APG) was often marginalised by gender-inflected terms such as ‘honorary secretary’, her practice is rarely recognised as having a value in its own right. The exhibition I Find Myself intends to redress this imbalance and encompass her life’s work, drawing together her practice and her experimentation with materials, media and strategies across a career spanning more than seventy years.
If you would like to volunteer as an Invigilator during this show please email hello@derryvoid.com, or click here for more information
Image: Acid Burn. Courtesy Estate of Barbara Steveni
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We’re keen to support car shares to our events if visiting from out of town or rural areas with limited public transport. If you’re planning on travelling from afar via car, and have space you wish to share with another person, let us know the general location from which you’re travelling, and the space you wish to make available in your vehicle at cecelia@derryvoid.com.
