Town Hall by Bottaccio is proud to announce Her Stories Untold, the first in the Town Hall by Bottaccio Presents annual exhibition programme. Curated by Town Hall by Bottaccio’s Director of Art, Virginia Damtsa, and presented in partnership with The Circle (a global feminist organisation co-founded by Annie Lennox). It inaugurates Town Hall by Bottaccio’s cultural programme with a powerful tribute to women in all their diversity, across generations, cultures, disciplines and lived experiences.
The exhibition is intimately staged within the Society’s Salon, a private space that serves as an elegant prelude to Town Hall by Bottaccio’s wider Society offering, opening later this year. Driven by refreshing, provocative and thoughtful programming, the Salon is Town Hall by Bottaccio’s beating heart. It hosts a curated rotation of exhibitions, drinks receptions, talks and intimate dinners. Fuelled by a dynamic clash of individuals and communities, it is a space where extraordinary people come together to build the foundations of Town Hall by Bottaccio Society.
Bringing together leading artists from the UK and internationally, Her Stories Untold celebrates female resilience, creativity, visibility and voice. The exhibition examines how women have been portrayed, silenced, honoured, misunderstood, celebrated and reimagined through portraiture, textiles, photography, sculpture, painting and digital works.
Throughout the run of Her Stories Untold, Town Hall by Bottaccio will host artist talks, studio conversations, panel discussions and dialogues exploring representation, visibility and the evolving role of women in contemporary culture. The programme aims to create a space for dialogue, connection and collective imagination. Audiences are invited not only to witness these stories but to engage, question and reflect on their own relationship to voice, memory and representation.
Registration is highly encouraged to secure the opportunity to attend these events and to receive exclusive invitations, including access to the private view.
Virginia Damtsa visits Jonathan Yeo in his studio
Embracing expansive understandings of womanhood, the exhibition acknowledges lived experience, self-identification, and the intersections of gender, culture, race and power. Her Stories Untold asks who has the power to narrate, preserve and circulate women’s stories, and what happens when those narratives are reclaimed, reimagined or authored anew.
From iconic global figures to quiet, intimate moments of inner life, the narrative unfolds across multiple perspectives to reveal the complexity and richness of womanhood today. At a moment when visibility, autonomy and authorship are increasingly contested, both online and offline, the exhibition situates artistic practice as a site of resistance, care and collective imagination.
DACS by Carolina Mazzolari
Girl Reading (Malala Yousafzai) by Jonathan Yeo
