New media and new means 

Tate Britain's survey of Women Artists in Britain 1520-1920 (the subtitle of the current exhibition) is so brilliantly put together that I think it deserves proper consideration. Although you could see everything in one go, enjoying whatever grabs your attention (which is what I usually do), Now You See Us would reward repeated visits - so that is what I shall do. 

For our final turn around Tate's ground-breaking exhibition I want to look at the last three rooms, which focus on photography and the opening of opportunities for women. This is seen particularly in terms of their access to art schools, but also, the right to vote (for some women) from 1918. 

Is it a coincidence that one of the first photographers to treat the new medium as an art from, rather than documentation of the seen fact, was a woman? Julia Margaret Cameron was not alone, though, and several other Victorian and Edwardian women are represented in this field. 

In the field of painting Gwen John and Laura Knight have both been given individual exhibitions recently, and while the latter's work as an official war artist is widely celebrated, that was during the Second World War - outside the time frame of Now You See Us. However, both Anna Gosse and Silvia Airy produced remarkable paintings relating to women's work during World War One - with Airy commissioned by the Imperial War Museum as the first official war artist. 

Others continue with purely artistic aims, with refreshing and renewed enthusiasm for the world around us

- looking at the growth of modernism, and taking the early steps towards abstraction.