Patrick Taylor Artist

The 'Women of Age' exhibition is about older women whose lives were shaped by a time when social conditions offered women fewer choices, less independence and fewer opportunities — and about what can happen when, later in life, they refuse simply to accept that.

It asks whether women can still step beyond what constrained them and claim, at last, something closer to the lives they were born to live. The pictures express older women as vivid, individual people — reflective, humorous, vulnerable, sensual, defiant, hopeful — and suggest a sense of a life beyond the frame.