Joanna Gilbert on Sky News talking on the Art Gender Pay Gap

Whether it's marketplace misogyny or unconscious collusion, female artists are losing out

Art is what you make of it right? Wrong - it turns out art created by a man is worth 10 times as much as that of a woman. And worse than that - if a woman's name is on the canvas, the price decreases even further.

Contemporary artist Joanna Gilbert says there is simply no reason for such a discrepancy: "If you're looking at something, it doesn't matter who it was made by. If you love what you see, then the value that it has should be the value that it is no matter what gender or who it has been created by."

Gilbert ignored advice to stay out of the art world and pursue an alternative career in marketing, now successfully selling her work around the world.

It's a choice she doesn't regret, telling Sky News: "I'm doing what I love and being the best version of who I am, I'm putting my heart and soul into what I do."

Director of international art agency Artiq, Tazie Taysom tells Sky News: "Women's work is chronically devalued. From 2008 to 2019, the money spent at auctions globally, only 2% of that funding went to women artists, which is really shocking. And it's not the same when we look on the ground

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By Bethany Minelle, Arts & Entertainment reporter @BethanyMinelle

Sunday 25 September 2022 11:16, UK