Benjamin Carteret & Sacha Llewellyn

Sacha: 

In ‘When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision’ (1972), the essayist and feminist Adrienne Rich (1929–2012) asserted that: ”Re-vision – the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction – is for women more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival”. 

Through my work – curation, writing and my foundation RAW – I endeavour to give a voice to women and other marginalised artists who have been side-lined or written out of the art historical narrative. I have written numerous books for publishing houses (including Yale University Press and Lund Humphries), contributed to international catalogues (including for the National Gallery, London, the Musée de Montmartre, Paris, the National Museum of Gothenburg, Sweden) and written for the press (including The Guardian, The Telegraph and Condé Nast). I am currently working on a book, to be published in 2025 by Yale University Press, on Irish-British artist Gladys Hynes, publishing the autobiography of British surrealist Marion Adnams with the Walpole Society, while concurrently researching the life and work of Françoise Gilot, along with co-author, Benjamin Carteret.  

Benjamin: 

I am an author passionate about Antiquity and Greek mythology. After training in Art History and specializing in modern and contemporary art, I joined the workshop of Jean-Michel Othoniel with whom I worked for 8 years as head of communications, press relations and publishing. Since 2021, I have been working freelance to help various entities in the art world to develop their own mythologies: artists, foundations, museums, luxury houses or galleries. 

At the same time, I am developing my artistic projects: in March 2024, I published my first novel with Charleston (Albin Michel), Persephone, a feminist Greek mythology retelling haunted by the urgency of contemporary questions linked to the ecological transformations of our time. 

From May to July 2024, Galerie Villa Gabrielle in Paris held an exhibition of my mythological maps and in early June, I published my essay on Orpheus with Ateliers Henry Dougier. I am also working on a graphic novel on Jean Cocteau with Gabrielle Lavoir, supported by the Comité Cocteau, as well as on my second mythological novel. Finally, I am working with Sacha Llewellyn on a biographical investigation about the painter Françoise Gilot. 

Sacha Llewellyn is an art historian, writer and curator. Focusssing primarily on women artists and surrealism, over a 25-year career she has published books, contributed to catalogues, written articles and curated exhibitions, In 2017, she was awarded the William M B Berger Prize for Art History. In 2022 she founded RAW (Rediscovering Art by Women), a radical platform that encourages discussion, open-mindedness and social progress through publications, research, blogs and contemporary artist sponsorship 

Benjamin Carteret is an art historian, author and communications strategy advisor passionate about Antiquity and Greek mythology. He is working freelance to help various entities in the art world to develop their own mythologies: artists, foundations, museums, luxury houses or galleries. In 2024, he published two books: Persephone (Charleston), and I, Orpheus,(Ateliers Henry Dougier), and from May to July 2024, Galerie Villa Gabrielle in Paris held an exhibition of his mythological maps. Benjamin is currently working on a graphic novel on Jean Cocteau with the designer Gabrielle Lavoir, as well as on his next mythological novel.