Amelia’s Magazine | Girls Aren’t Funny at Art Licks Weekend

Category: Art

Sarah Maple: An Artist and a Female Artist
Sarah Maple: An Artist and a Female Artist.

As part of the Art Licks Weekend the A-side B-side Gallery invites you to the private view of Girls Aren't Funny on Thursday 3rd October between 6-9pm. The Art Licks Weekend is a new festival to showcase the work of pioneering young artists, curators, galleries and project spaces in London.

Women aren’t as funny as men
Germaine Greer on a TV show in 2009

The reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks
Adam Carolla a US radio presenter, while promoting his new book in 2012: Not Taco Bell Material

Women can be funny, they’re just not given the chance
Lynne Parker, founder of ‘Funny Women’, writing for the Guardian in 2009

Claire Douglass: The Great Beard of Joy
Claire Douglass: The Great Beard of Joy.

A public furor and raging debate ensued after Greer’s public remark and more recently Carolla’s declaration, yet this opinion is still widely held. If you are a female, being funny is ‘not something regularly associated with attractiveness’ observes Lynne Parker for the Huffington Post, although contrariwise for a man it is considered an attractive trait. Greer later elucidated by saying that she thought females lacked the humour of their male counterparts due to social conditioning, for generations women have been supposed to be passive, and being funny would be unattractive and threatening to a man.

Sarah Maple: It's A Girl
Sarah Maple: It's A Girl.

This exhibition sets out to prove that GIRLS ARE FUNNY! and features a carefully selected and talented group of female artists whose work does actually make you smile, chuckle and laugh out loud. To broaden the platform there will also be a screening of several short films on the opening night, Thursday 3rd October, including a performance by the fabulous Bryony Kimmings, ‘One of the funniest, most charming things I’ve seen in an ageTime Out.

The Girls: Beatrice and Eugenie
The Girls: Beatrice and Eugenie.

The Girls: William and Harry

Girls Aren't Funny features work by some of our favourite artists, including Tinsel Edwards and Twinkle Troughton (read more here), The Girls (read more here) Claire Douglass, Miriam Elia, Sadie Hennessy, Catherine Magnani, Sarah Maple and Sig Waller.

Tinsel Edwards: Shoebox
Tinsel Edwards: Shoebox.

Twinkle Troughton: The Secret of England's Greatness
A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.”
Jane Austen

Opening times: Thursday-Sunday, 12-6pm