Published articles by Rea Stavropoulos
‘Towards Modernity: Women in the Banca d’Italia’s Art Collection’ exhibition review
The former headquarters of Italy’s national bank reveals some feminine secrets.
“The Oltrarno Gaze inspires the female gaze: an artist’s experience”
https://www.theflorentine.net/2022/03/28/oltrarno-gaze-inspires-female-gaze-artist-experience/
“The Steinbeck Snail and the Greatness of the Universe”, The Florentine, Issue No. 267, May 2020
https://www.theflorentine.net/2020/06/15/steinbeck-snail-creativity/
“A ride with Zia Caterina”, The Florentine, Issue No. 262, December 2019
https://www.theflorentine.net/2019/12/18/zia-caterina-taxi-charity/
“What can be done: Helen Cammock” The Florentine, Issue No. 260, November 2019
https://www.theflorentine.net/art-culture/2019/10/helen-cammock-exhibition/
“A drama for our times: The Ballet of the Nations” The Florentine, Issue No. 257, June 2019
www.theflorentine.net/art-culture/2019/05/ballet-nations-vernon-lee/
“An Ambassadress for Florence and “Una Grande Fiorentina”” The Florentine (8 November, 2016)
“What does it mean to “Adopt an Apostle?” “The Florentine” 13 June 2018
www.theflorentine.net/art-culture/2018/06/mean-adopt-apostle/
“Painting the spring in a Florentine garden” The Florentine (ISSUE NO. 104/2009 / 18 June, 2009)
“Ricordi” The Florentine (Special Edition – 90th Anniversary of The British Institute of Florence / 8 November, 2007)
“From Babylon to Boboli” The Florentine (ISSUE NO. 64/2007 / OCTOBER 4, 2007)
“Survival strategies for struggling artists” The Florentine (ISSUE NO. 60/2007 / JULY 12, 2007)
“Far Horizons and Shifting Perspectives” The Florentine 16 November 2006 p. 21
“Inside Marini Outside of Time” The Florentine 2 November 2006 p. 20
“By choice and coincidences” The Florentine (ISSUE NO. 181/2013 / 11 April, 2013)
“Looking over Leonardo’s shoulder” The Florentine (ISSUE NO. 140/2011 / 7 April, 2011)
“Women artists of wit and great ingenuity” The Florentine (ISSUE NO. 133/2010 / 9 December, 2010)
“Visibility for women artists” The Florentine (ISSUE NO. 126/2010 / 1 July, 2010)
c.f. www.theflorentine.net for back issues
Interview with Jenny Holzer at Biennale di Firenze “Il Tempo e la moda”, 1996, for “Make” magazine, London
Letters published in the Financial Times
In 2011 I wrote my first ever letter to a newspaper on the subject of women artists. I was surprised, proud and pleased when the Financial Times published it. Since then, I have had seven further letters published in the FT – all equally subjective and dealing with the role of women as artists, older women and the perception of women, as well as the role of the artist in society.
- “Women artists have to be part Mrs Moneypenny, part Harry Eyres” Financial Times (8 January, 2011 )
- “Not intending to retire gracefully ” Financial Times (16 February, 2013)
- “Ai wants us to become ‘obsessed citizens’ and question everything” Financial Times (3 June, 2016)
- “Rewriting the myths about women” Financial Times (28 October, 2017)
- “Not ‘women artists’— simply ‘artists'” Financial Times, published on 9 October 2018, the day that Jane Fortune, founder of Advancing Women Artists was commemorated in a memorial service in the Basilica of Santa Croce, Florence
- “Channel the Spirit of Ruskin and awaken the artist within” Financial Times (2 February 2019)
- “Appraisal of female artists should transcend image”, Financial Times (1 March 2019)
- Letter: From fashion to theatre, dreams survive in war
- “Remembering that Marx quote, Groucho not Karl“ Letter Financial Times 24 February 2024
“Why visual literacy helps in art appreciation” – (Financial Times Letter 23 April 2024)
“A pram in the hall is no longer the enemy of the female artist” – Financial Tomes letters 6 July 2024
Articles, Essays and Interviews about Rea Stavropoulos
- “Up Close and Personal – an Interview with Rea Stavropoulos”, Linda Falcone, The Florentine 18 May 2006, p.23
- “A British Artist exploring and expressing herself”, Melinda Gallo, The Florentine, 17 June 2010, Issue 125/2010
- “Mythologies 2009 – Rea Zoe Stavropoulos” (Article on Women’s Fiction Festival 2009, Matera) www.womensfictionfestival.com
- “Tra la Terra e il cielo l’universo natura paesaggio dell’anima “ (La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno / 25 September , 2009)
- “Le Mythologies di Rea Zoe “ (Il Quotidiano della Basilicata / 26 September, 2009)
- Catalogue essays By Mo Throp and Lucia Fiaschi in “Secret Gardens”, Florence 2006, catalogue for the exhibition at La Corte Arte Contemporanea.
- “Mieux Consommer pour moins polluer”, Interviewed by Le Courrier Picard, 14 June, 2012
- “A British artist exploring and expressing herself” The Florentine (ISSUE NO. 125/2010 / 17 June, 2010)
- “Helen Allingham Revisited” Camden Review (16 June, 2016)
- “Watercolours in an English country garden” (Hampstead and Highgate Express, 28 July 2016)
Bridges: a Book Art Exhibition at the Colonica of Villa Il Palmerino