Representing the art world in its most capacious sense these artists resist and revel in the contours of female experience. Whilst hailing from vastly different cultural contexts, with each cultivating their idiosyncratic practices, a deep sense of universal female agency across the works is starkly apparent.

Whether working in countries perhaps with limited arts infrastructure or restricted opportunities for display, each of the works are share complex and sophisticated assertions concerning the female experience. The perspectives offered in She Persists are not necessarily resolved nor entirely polemic, but all are categorically unapologetic. Seeking to subvert grand institutional narratives coveted, which have operated on foundations of exclusion or marginalisation and proliferated through mainstream spaces principally located in the West.