Cheryl Robson is an award-winning playwright, editor and publisher of Aurora Metro Books, a finalist in Small Press of the Year 2025.

As an editor/publisher, Cheryl’s work has won the Pandora Prize, the Raymond Williams/Arts Council Publishing Prize, a Special Jury Prize for

Peace, Best Innovative & Best Seasonal Foodbook from Gourmand World Cookbooks, shortlisted for the People’s Book Prize, the

IPG National Diversity awards and the ITV National Diversity awards. www.aurorametro.com

She has edited or contributed to over 150 books with work also published in The Guardian, the Chicago Tribune, Culture Trip, Riviera News and more.

Her documentary film Rock ‘n’ Roll Island, won several awards at film festivals and was broadcast on BBC4 in 2020, garnering a Sunday Times

Critics’ Choice and Radio Times Pick of the Week.

Cheryl is perhaps best-known for her successful 5-year campaign with sister charity (aurorametro.org.uk) to erect a full-size bronze statue

of Virginia Woolf which was unveiled in November 2022 on Richmond riverside and has proven a popular attraction.

She co-owns the independent bookshop Books on the Rise in Richmond, which offers weekly literary and arts events and hosts Feminist Book Fortnight. booksontherise.com

For more see cherylrobson.net

 

PL Henderson author of Reframing Women’s Art is an art historian and freelance writer who regularly contributes to publications on art, ecological issues and wider culture. Her research into the subject of women artists led to her creation and curation of the successful and ongoing social media project: @womensart1 (X, formerly twitter) and WOMENSART blog to platform the work of women artists.

Whilst having a case study published in the book Feminism and Museums, Intervention, Disruption and Change (2017), she was also one of the writing team for Phaidon’s book Great Women Artists (2019) and also Great Women Painters (2022). She has also written her own successful books about art: Unravelling Women’s Art; Creators, Rebels & Innovators in Textile Arts (Aurora Metro/Supernova Books 2020) and Unlocking Women’s Art: Pioneers, Visionaries & Radicals of Paint (Aurora Metro/Supernova Books 2023).

 

Reviews:

“Reframing Women offers a powerful and much-needed reexamination of the role of women in printmaking, challenging long-held assumptions about artistic authorship and gender. Through a combination of historical analysis, striking visual examples and interviews with practicing artists, the book sheds light on often-overlooked female artists whose contributions have been marginalized in mainstream art history. The writing is thoughtful and well-researched, offering both scholarly insight and accessible narrative, as well as a broad look through time and cultures. This is an essential read for anyone interested in feminist art history, print culture, or the broader redefinition of women’s roles in the creative industries.” *****

– Daisy, netgalley reviewer

“P. L. Henderson works tirelessly to bring the work of global women artists to a wider audience…” – Jackie Morris, award-winning illustrator and writer

 

“P.L Henderson’s writing is essential and key to the always unfolding story of the impact of women on art. And of art on women .” – Bonnie Greer, novelist, critic and broadcaster

 

“Women artists have long been undervalued and cast aside by our historically male-dominated culture…Art historian PL Henderson has dedicated her career to rewriting this narrative” – Charlotte Beach, PRINT Magazine

 

“Reframing Women Printmakers offers an exciting new perspective into Printmaking from the women that created it, made it their own, and changed the industry/art practice. The book offers a nuance look into the history of printmaking and the relationship of printmaking with women, nature, protest and politics. Often many of the artists represented in this book have been overlooked, ignored, or just forgotten. The addition of the artist and writer interviews were awesome, reflecting own voices and shedding light on previously unheard opinion. It is a thoughtful, well researched and well written art book and I’m excited for this to be published! Definitely one that should be on college and university art reading lists…” ****  –Halle Kirby, Netgalley reviewer