Spanning from the 1970s to the present, this exhibition focuses on women artists working with both artists’ books and visual art and draws from the Monash University Library Special Collections, Caulfield Library’s Artists’ Books collection and artworks from the Monash University Collection.

You See What She’s Saying acknowledges that gender equality within collection holdings of many institutions has not been prioritised in the past, resulting in the under-representation of women artists despite the libraries having a long history of collecting ‘non-traditional literature’ such as romance, ephemera, cook books and education material. Currently, 37.3% of artworks held in the Monash University Collection, and less than one fifth of the holdings of artists’ books held in Special Collections and the Artists’ Books collection were produced by women.

The Library and Monash University Museum of Art | MUMA, which manages the Monash University Collection, are committed to redressing this imbalance.