About the Author

Ali Smith was born in Inverness and lives in Cambridge. Her latest few books are ‘There But For The’ (Penguin, 2011), ‘Artful’ (Penguin, 2012), ‘Shire’ (Full Circle, 2013) and ‘How to be both’ (Hamish Hamilton, 2014). Catherine Morris has been the Sackler Family Curator of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum since 2009. She has curated exhibitions including the award winning ‘Materializing Six Years: Lucy R. Lippard and the Emergence of Conceptual Art’ (co-curated with Vincent Bonin); ‘Käthe Kollwitz: Prints from the War and Death Portfolios’; ‘Matthew Buckingham: The Spirit and the Letter’; and ‘Kiki Smith: Sojourn’. She was in-house curator of ‘Eva Hesse: Spectres 1960’ and ‘Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists, 1958-1968’. As an independent curator she organized, among other projects, ‘Decoys, Complexes and Triggers: Women and Land Art in the 1970s’ at Sculpture Center, Long Island City, and ‘Gloria: Another Look at Feminist Art of the 1970s’ at White Columns, New York. Morris was the recipient of a Penny McCall Foundation Award for Independent Curating and Writing.