8th August 2026

Frida: The Making Of An Icon

Tate Modern, London

I kept thinking about the woman behind the image of Frida.

The paintings feel so deeply personal, yet the mythology around her has become something almost separate from the work.

I loved that tension - Frida the woman, Frida the artist, Frida the icon.

WHAT I TOOK AWAY

How a deeply personal body of work can become something much larger - a cultural image that continues to be reinvented, interpreted and made our own

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