International Women's Day Panel Discussion with Idle Women

This informal panel discussion is part of a two‑day gathering for International Women’s Day in Croydon, commissioned by Culture Croydon in collaboration with Idle Women. The events are connected to The National Gallery: Art On Your Doorstep project, which has placed life‑size images of 30 paintings from the national collection in public spaces across the borough.

Seeing these works outside the gallery brings up important questions about who is shown in national collections, and who is missing. This panel brings together artists to discuss what an international gallery space for and by women would look like, and what it would mean to see themselves included in collections or in the stories that are usually told about art.

Everyone is welcome to the panel. You don’t need to know anything about art!

Warm drinks will be provided. Quiet room and Prayer Space available during the event.

On Saturday 7 March, 3-9pm, Braithwaite Hall will become a women’s space titled:
“All women are artists… and they can’t fit us all in their inter‑national gallery.”
This will be a place for women to make things, talk, rest, dance, share food, and take up space in whatever way feels right.

Contributing Panel

Carole Wright

Carole Wright is an elder holding space at Brookwood Triangle community gardens in Southwark, South London. She founded the grassroots Blak Outside project in 2020, supporting QTIBIPOC and social‑housing communities through art and environmental justice work connected to built and green social-housing spaces.
Instagram/X: @blak_outside · Website: Blak Outside – inclusive community events

Alana Jelinek

Alana Jelinek is an artist and author whose work explores the role and value of art in society. Her practice spans large-scale site‑specific interventions and multidimensional painting, all grounded in a commitment to the importance of diversity.
More: Home - Alana Jelinek

Raksha Patel

Raksha Patel is a painter whose work examines British South-Asian diaspora experiences, migration histories and identity through imagery drawn from personal and public archives. She also works as a curator, writer and socially engaged practitioner, and is a Senior Lecturer in BA Painting at Camberwell College of Arts (UAL).
More: Home - Raksha Patel

Rayvenn Shaleigha D’Clark

Rayvenn Shaleigha D’Clark is a London-based digital sculptor, writer and researcher whose work reimagines monuments and public sculpture to centre overlooked figures of colour. Her practice explores race, representation and digital hybridity, and she has produced major public artworks including Black Renaissance (2024) and Mother Vérité (2025), alongside receiving recognitions such as Forbes 30 Under 30.

More: RAYVENN SHALEIGHA D'CLARK

B Atherton

B Atherton is a Croydon-raised co-director and co-founding member of Turf Projects, shaping the organisation since 2013. Alongside their role at Turf, B is a co-chair of Croydon Makers & Creators. B's work explores hyperlocalism, accessibility and problem-solving grounded in lived experience.

More: B Atherton – Turf Projects

About Idle Women

Idle Women create artworks which are spaces: a boat, a garden, a rave, a website. Their works are sculptural, site-specific and contextual. They are created through social justice collaborations and built to last, to be animated and inhabited by women. Their projects create transformative spaces for women that can't be cut, closed or taken away. ​Idle Women is a collaboration with women from any and all walks of life.

All Women Are Artists...and they can’t fit us all in the Inter-National Gallery has been commissioned by Culture Croydon and co-created by Idle Women.

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