Collectives help us to forge friendships and energise us to make art, writes Catherine Marshall
The great voice of American feminism, Gloria Steinem speculated that ‘Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age’. Echoing that sentiment, Na Cailleacha (the witches), a collective of older women artists, formed early last year. Artist Helen Comerford looked ahead to her seventy-fifth birthday and thought the best way to celebrate it would be to spend it with eight women artists of seventy years or more, all making art together. By midsummer, there we were: six artists, a composer and a performer, and myself, a curator; all women, all but one, aged between seventy and eighty-four.
