Like wow.
Look at that.
I was just in awe.
It's absolutely fabulous to see it here.
This is the most amazing picture.
And we wanted to share it with people across Britain as widely as possible.
We're taking our star painting to places a painting would never normally go to.
This picture just speaks to people.
Now we're at the final stop of Artemisia Visits we're thinking back across Artemisia's journey
and the five unexpected venues that we visited.
We started off at Glasgow Women's Library just in time for International Women's Day.
Glasgow Women's Library is a fantastic first venue for the tour
because Artemisia is such a strong, female role model.
We're absolutely thrilled that the women's library was chosen.
It's fitting because Glasgow Women's Library is the only accredited museum
dedicated to women's history in the whole of the UK.
I'm surprised to find her in Glasgow in a library.
It's based within, you know, housing estates
and really makes it accessible to anyone.
It's quite cool that the women's library is the first stop in Scotland for us.
I think when we go into museums and galleries
there's a kind of way of behaving you know you sort of feel like you meant to go in
and be quite quiet and reverential around the painting.
Actually when you take something out of a museum
it means you can experience it in a much more natural way.
Our second stop was Pocklington Group practice
a GP surgery in Yorkshire.
We partnered with Paintings in Hospitals
and explored arts and wellbeing.
Has anybody told you about our visitor?
I've been told about it, yes.
First time I've been gobsmacked when I've come to work.
Having art in care environments can reduce stress and anxiety
It can make spaces says feel comforting and reassuring.
Artemisia overcame great challenges in her life.
She's a great inspiration for patients
when they may be going through difficult challenges.
It's absolutely fabulous to see it here.
We're so excited that it's here.
People have just being so amazed and really puzzled
as to why we have a painting like this in our building.
I think it's very calming for patients to sit here and have a look at it.
I for one will go out of here with a feeling of well-being.
We're not just here in Trafalgar Square in London.
We are a gallery for the entire nation.
Artemisia's third visit was to Sacred Heart Catholic High School in Newcastle
where the students learnt about inspirational women from across the ages
and explored themes of identity.
You can tell by her eyes, in a way, it shows like strength and confidence.
She's a real inspiration for all girls.
Art is a brilliant platform to express yourself as whoever you wish to be
nd Artemisia's painting reinforces that perfectly.
She kind of seems like a modern day feminist
and I quite like that for an all girls school.
It's brought such a sense of excitement into school and you can feel it.
There's a real energy in the atmosphere around here and that's amazing.
We don't often get these things in Newcastle so to have
that come up to Newcastle school is just a tremendous opportunity.
I think it inspires all the girls in this school to just express who they are
be who they want to be no matter what people think.
A really inspiring aspect of Artemisia Visits
has been the largely female team working on the project
including Constantine, the transport agents for the tour.
We've never done anything like this before
and that's because the venues are not galleries
which makes delivery, installation and security very difficult.
One of the reasons behind this project is about making it accessible
to an audience who would otherwise not be able to engage with it.
Artemisia's fourth visit was her most unusual.
A visit to HMP Send - a women's prison in Surrey.
It's been displayed in our visits hall
which is enabling us to undertake a number of workshops
with the women in our care.
No you're going to do a drawing that's going to last about a minute.
As soon as they came in and sat down they were incredibly curious.
I couldn't even talk afterwards.
My voice was all funny.
I was just in awe, myself.
Well this is the final thing we kind of did, which was a collage.
My sunflower, nice and bright and happy and growing
a bit like myself.
Projects like this can have a positive impact
in terms of well-being and mental health.
Actually these women are members of our community and will be released.
And actually we want to give them every opportunity
to be as positive members of the community as possible.
I've formed a bond with her now. She's my mate.
The fifth and final stop of Artemisia Visits is here at Wood Street Library
where Artemisia is a stop on the E17 Art Trail
as part of Waltham Forest's London Borough of Culture celebrations.
Today I'm going to be talking to a distinguished visitor.
I know that there are children and young people
who don't feel empowered to go to central London and walk into the galleries.
For them to be able to see that work here
that's really, really important.
It was great.
It's really good to see quality art like that here.
This has been the most exciting project I've ever worked on.
It's been so innovative and rewarding to take art to people
rather than to ask them to come to you.
And I really hope that Artemisia has inspired
some of the people that she's met along the way.
We've just hung Artemisia's self portrait
of Saint Catherine of Alexandria back here in the gallery.
And it's rather an emotional moment to see the picture return here
after it's visited all these unusual and unexpected venues
where she's been really enjoyed by people
who perhaps don't really have access to our collection.