Women and Power exhibitions, art installations and events

29 April onwards

We’re partnering with the National Portrait Gallery on a touring exhibition of rarely seen paintings, drawings, photographs and archival documents, from surveillance photographs of militant suffragettes to portraits of the key players in the suffrage movement.

See the lives of pioneering women brought to life through art, theatre, poetry, and film. We've asked female artists, writers and academics to tell the often untold stories of the women connected to five of our special places. The project, A Room of One’s Own, features the likes of writer Virginia Woolf and the first female MP Nancy Astor. Come along to events at Cliveden, Berkshire; Cragside, Northumberland; Tyntesfield, Bristol; Monk’s House, Sussex; and Wightwick Manor, Wolverhampton.

17 May – 4 November 2018

Winner of the prestigious Turner Prize, Lubaina Himid, joins five other artists exploring gender equality through the stories of women who have contributed to the spirit and history of Knole. Using different media including sculpture and film, they will create works that encompass themes of love, betrayal, class, gender and inheritance.