Artist Sandy with one of her paintings.

SEVEN female artists will hold an art exhibition at AZADA art gallery from November 20 to 26.

Artist Sandy says, this is the third group show exclusively of female artists, she has organised and participated in.

In 2003, artist Wai Mar and Sandy held an exhibition together, entitled ‘Double Rays’. Two years later, they enlisted four other female artists to join them in an exhibition titled ‘Rays I’.

Their latest exhibition, this week, will be called ‘Rays II’.

“This time, seven artists will cooperate together including one who has never exhibited before,” Sandy says.

She says she has been interested in organizing female-only exhibitions since studying painting under U Ye Myint, through who she met many other female artists.

“Most of the art exhibitions held in Myanmar are put on by male artists. So as female artists, we wanted to do a female-only art exhibition,” she says.

Female artists face many more challenges in Myanmar than male artists, she believes.

“Women have to try harder than men to get a place in the art industry. It is hard for a woman to penetrate into a world which is so male-dominated.

“We, seven artists have different ideas, use different techniques. We use different mediums. So the audience can enjoy seven different ‘rays’,” Sandy says with a smile.