Tabitha Barber

Of her arts writing, Tabitha muses that ‘curators have the privilege of working with real objects, not pictures in books – so you can get to know artists intimately by looking’. It’s an affinity with female artists who created in spite of their contexts that the Early Modernist at Tate most covets – like the painter Angelica Kauffman, ‘a resolute high-achiever in a world that made it so hard for her.’