‘Wide Awoke’- Are Female Artists Worth Collecting? with Juta Jazz

‘Wide Awoke’- Are Female Artists Worth Collecting? with Juta Jazz

This time in our latest ‘Wide Awoke’ article Juta Jazz depicts her answer to ‘Are female artists worth collecting?’ in this creative video – take a look…

We have announced our brand-new ‘Women’ section within TheAppWhisperer. We kicked off with our first ‘Talking Points’ with the incredibly talented mobile artist, M. Cecilia Sao Thiago, where she visually channelled the creative argument of ‘what if I wasn’t me?’, envisaging herself as an artist whilst physically being a male, as opposed to female. Catherine Caddigan, another accomplished artist, also contributed with a great ‘Talking Points’ entitled ‘What do we reveal to the camera’. We followed that up with a fabulous, insightful video from Susan Detroy, with her perspective vis-ƒ-vis the women’s movement, using her self-portraiture work and ethos. Successively we published the first in our Women’s ‘Wide Awoke’ section with Armineh Hovanesian and following work from  Deborah McMillion, Lynette Sheppard,Rita Colantonio Fleur Schim and Joyce Harkin.

For our ‘Wide Awoke’ section initially, we selected a challenging discussion at the Tate Museum, London. Sometime ago, an article was published in The Guardian by Helen Gorrill, suggesting that female artists are less likely to succeed now than they were in the 1990s. Gorrill expressed “Today, when men’s artwork is signed, it goes up in value; conversely when work by women is signed, it goes down in value, and the addition of a woman’s signature can devalue artwork to the extent that female artists are more likely to leave their work unsigned”. And even more scathingly, “The Tate seems to align to these views by only collecting a ‘token’ proportion of work by women, who form the 74% majority of fine art graduates”, Gorrill goes on to say.

This, of course, provoked much discussion here at TheAppWhisperer HQ. After all, this is one of the key elements of our new Women section; we want to bring all these issues and more into the open.

We approached several female mobile artists and asked them the question, ‘Are Female Artists Worth Collecting?’ and asked them to create a short video of their answer to our subheading, ‘Wide Awoke’. Today, we are incredibly proud to publish the sixth in this series by none other than female artist, Juta Jazz from

We hope you enjoy this new section, and please feel free to leave comments below. This is a section about women’s issues, but we invite all men to view and participate in commenting too.