Gallery Girls have come a long way since the Sloane Rangers of Sotheby's in the ‘80s. Tatler catches up with Tamsin Golding Yee, Sarah Green, Ell Pennick, India Bhattacharjee and Lovisa Berntson on the what it’s like to be a woman in art.
India Bhattacharjee and Lovisa Berntson, the directors of the young and thriving art gallery Berntson Bhattacharjee on Berners Street, agree that ‘it’s hard to keep afloat on any salary in the creative industries, unless you have help from other sources. And that’s a problem.’ They also recognise the disproportionate effect parenting has on women in the arts, labelling the support for gallery directors who are also mothers as ‘shocking’, in an industry where being a mother and an artist is near impossible without what Berntson calls ‘help from home’.