The exhibition is the first major exhibit in Italy dedicated to one of the most radical and influential British artists of the second half of the twentieth century.

The exhibition, symbolically inaugurated on November 25th, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, is a collaboration between The Hepworth Wakefield and the Kunsthaus Graz, where it will travel after Florence.
This major retrospective will be the first in over 25 years, and will chart the development of Chadwick’s art from her renowned degree show piece In the Kitchen (1977) through to her Piss Flowers (1991–2).

Chadwick’s experiments across mediums were innovative and unconventional; typically combining aesthetic beauty with an alliance of unusual, often grotesque materials. She consistently expressed a feminist perspective steeped in humour, and employed a vast range of materials in unexpected ways, incorporating bodily fluids, meat, flowers, chocolate and compost into her works. Through her skilled use of traditional fabrication methods and sophisticated technologies, she quickly established herself as a leading figure amongst Britain’s post-war avant-garde, becoming one of the first women artists to be nominated for the Turner Prize in 1987.