International Women's Day has a dual purpose - to celebrate the achievements of women from all walks of society and bring our attention issues of inequality that still exist in our ever changing world.

Art - and creativity in general - holds a unique position. It is possible to look at a painting, sculpture, installation without attributing a specific gender to the artist.

There are millions of people committed to challenging and changing the preconceptions and stereotypes that affect the lives of women across the globe.

The Gender Agenda Exhibition is a small cog within that movement, showcasing thought provoking pieces that will keep the debate moving towards a more equal world.

The Curator, Clemency Otto is a fine artist and educator. She has put an interesting show together that engages viewers to explore gender issues and ideas that inspire change.

This W3 gallery exhibition draws its inspiration from International Women’s Day. The exhibition brings together the work of twelve artists who have responded to the brief of Inspiring Change and interpretations of the experience of women. Illustrations of art attached include:

Liana Bortolozzo is a London based artist who graduated at the Academy of Fine Art of Venice with a specialization in painting a she completed a Master in Fine Art at the Chelsea College of Fine Art. Liana’s work involves and combines different media, both conventional and unconventional: drawing, painting, photography, fabric and video. Her contribution is Caenis, a character from The Metamorphoses by Ovid. Hers is the story of a beautiful woman which, after being abused by Neptune, expresses the desire of being transformed into a man, becoming then an invincible warrior. She made the dress using video stills of the naked bodies of 5 men, printed the pictures on pieces of fabric and sewed them together. Her piece will be performed and exhibited.

Gaye Black’s work celebrates the achievements of Marie Curie who advanced the world of medicine hugely, back in the early 20th century in a male dominated culture. The Marie Curie collage commemorates her discovery of radium, which led to the development of x rays. The collage has a ghostly feel, to reflect the age in which their achievements occurred. Marie Curie’s discovery of Radium have inspired women ever since.

Gina Baber has a great love of colour which is a prominent feature in her work. Her drawing of the artist Frida Kahlo features on the cover of a friend's printed publication on the theme of Mexico. Gina wanted it to reflect Frida’s vibrancy, beauty and courage. Frida Kahlo was an amazing woman who endured a great deal of physical and emotional pain throughout her life but remained strong and continued to make incredible, powerful paintings. She frequently painted self-portraits but also represented women's issues including infertility, miscarriage, domestic abuse, infidelity and body image.

Assiya Majgan Amini is an Afghan freelance film writer, director and producer, working on various different projects for peace and the advancement of Afghan cinema. Her work reflect s the political and social affairs from an Afghan woman’s perspective. “Handscape” is mainly experimental moving imagery, which aims to portray the restricted living conditions of those individuals who are denied basic rights, such as education. The production location of this work is Ealing.

Tanya Loi’s work entitled Venus in Regents Park is printed map of Regents Park in London, with hand coloured areas showing the feminine symbolism concealed in the ground plan. These include occult and astrological symbols of the Feminine in the layout of pathways, and the uterus – shaped Boating Lake in close proximity to the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology building. “This is Woman’s World … I will create secret places” -Enitharmon in Blake’s ‘Jerusalem’ (88:16-17).

S R Jimmy’s installation ‘Birds’, is an installation work made by 3 books written by Simone de Beauvoir (The Second Sex), Sylvia Plath (Selected Poems) and Virginia Woolf ( A room of one’s own). The 3 writers whose books will be used for the installation are very significant from the feminist perspective. They have given the women ‘a subtle kind of space to fly’.

Charlotte Katsuno painting ‘Energy in Constant Transformation’ subject matter is unifying on many levels, and relates to IWD. It is not aimed at being relevant to one particular sex, but as humanity as a whole and thus referencing equality in many senses, including gender. Her practice explores our relationship with nature within the current era of technological dominance. Ongoing interests include concepts surrounding time, scale, light, colour, energy and their relationship to our own existence. She is currently looking deeper into the connection between digital imagery and primitive image making. The resulting works strive for coalescence between the two.

Karina Sabbagha art features on the exhibition flyer entitled ‘Eve.’ Karina suggests: “What topic could be more feminine than Eve? She’s the mother of humankind, the archetype of a woman.”

The exhibition includes audio-visual work, two and three dimensional visual work.