20th Century British Female Artists Quiz

Answer: Bridget Riley

Bridget Riley's abstract paintings of the 1960s, in black and white, creating the effect of movement, made her name as a notable exponent of Op art. Later, she introduced colours to her palette, and continued to experiment and produce work into her 80s. One of Britain's most prominent and influential - and imitated - painters, she was made a Companion of Honour by the UK and awarded the Praemium Imperiale by the Japanese Imperial family.

Answer: Barbara Hepworth

Dame Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth (d. 1975) studied at the Leeds School of Art alongside fellow sculptor Henry Moore, who became a friend and a rival. She was known internationally for her modern abstract sculptures such as the influential - "Pierced Form" (1932), and "Corinthos" (1954-5). "Single Form" (1964) was commissioned by the United Nations as a memorial to Dag Hammarskjöld.

She spent much of her life working in the post-war artistic hotbed of St Ives in Cornwall, and her studio there was acquired by the Tate and maintained as a wonderful museum.

Answer: Elisabeth Frink

Elisabeth Frink was brought up in the country and was fascinated by birds, horses, dogs and the human form. Remarkably, her work "Bird" was purchased by the notoriously conservative Tate Gallery in 1952, while she was still a student. She produced many sculptures for public spaces and memorials, including "Eagle" at the JFK memorial in Dallas, Texas.

She was made a Dame of the British Empire in 1983. She died in 1993.

Answer: Rachel Whiteread

Rachel Whiteread's best known work, "House" (1993) was a concrete cast of an entire Victorian terraced house, which led to her becoming the first female recipient of the Turner Prize. She came to wider notice when her work was included in Charles Saatchi's "Sensation" exhibition at the Royal Academy in 1997 which toured to Berlin and New York.

Her "Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial" (2000) presents a library of books which cannot be read - as a metaphor for the loss of more than 65,000 murdered Austrian Jews.

As Simon Wiesenthal said when he unveiled it: "This monument shouldn't be beautiful. It must hurt."

Answer: Zaha Hadid

Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid (d. 2016) was a trailblazer as an architect who was an Arab woman. Her first US building, The Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art (2003), was called "the most important American building to be completed since the cold war". Her Bridge Pavilion was a centrepiece for Expo 2008 in Zaragoza, Spain.

Among many accolades and much recognition, she was awarded "architecture's Nobel Prize", the Pritzker Architecture Prize and a Royal Gold Medal for architecture from the Royal Institute of British Architects.

Answer: Tracey Emin

Tracey Emin's work is unflinchingly open and autobiographical. One of the highlights of Saatchi's 1997 "Sensation" show was "Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963-1995", better known as just "The Tent". On the tent she appliqued 102 names of people she had slept with, including sexual partners but also her grandmother whose bed she slept in as a young child. Emin's drawings included the series of monoprints called "There Must Be Something Terebley Wrong With Me" (sic) (1997).

Her 1999 Turner Prize entry, "My Bed", which was just that, a recreation of a bed she had slept in, made her notorious.

In later years, she became a Royal Academician, a professor of drawing and a CBE.

Answer: Gwen John

Gwendolen Mary John (d. 1939) was overshadowed during her lifetime by her brother Augustus, although more modern critics have rated her work more favourably.

She travelled to France in 1903, and worked there for most of her life. Initially she worked as a model for several artists, including Rodin, who became her lover.

Gwen John's work mostly focussed on portraits of female sitters. She was in no doubt about her abilities - on viewing a Cezanne exhibition she is said to have opined "These are very good, but I prefer my own."

Answer: Maggi Hambling

Maggi Hambling's works include a 1985 portrait of scientist Dorothy Hodgkin at the National Portrait Gallery, and "A Conversation with Oscar Wilde" (1998), which stands near Trafalgar Square and was commissioned following a national campaign for a monument to the playwright.

Her most well-known work "Scallop" (2003), a tribute to Benjamin Britten situated on Aldeburgh beach, has created controversy and praise.

Answer: Leonora Carrington

Leonora Carrington (d. 2011) worked and lived most of her life in Mexico City. She was a partner and collaborator with fellow surrealist Max Ernst in the 1930s. She was incarcerated in an asylum in the early war years and subjected to very unpleasant treatment, which she wrote about and which informed her art. Luis Bunuel said her work: "liberates us from the miserable reality of our days".

Answer: Margaret Macdonald

Margaret Macdonald (d.1933) is best known for collaborations with her husband Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Her work was varied and interesting, and she was one of the most important early 20th century British artists in her own right, influencing the likes of Klimt after she exhibited in Vienna.

She was involved in many of Mackintosh's works including the Willow Tearooms (1903) and House of an Art Lover (1901).