International Women’s Day Panel Discussion with Idle Women
Join a free, informal panel discussion with artists Raksha Patel, Carole Wright, Dr Alana Jelinek, Rayvenn Shaleigha D’Clark and B Atherton, to explore what would an international gallery of women’s work look like?
Warm drinks will be provided.
Introducing the panelists
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
Dr Alana Jelinek
Dr 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 has been a 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.
www.idlewomen.org
Instagram: @Idle_women