Of the piece, the Guerrilla Girls have said, “What art historians call The Male Gaze, the masculine, heterosexual perspective in European and American art mostly by white men that depicts women as sexual objects for the pleasure of the male viewer, the Guerrilla Girls call The Male Graze… When we looked into how some revered male artists used and abused women in their real lives, we saw a lot of grazing, not just gazing. So we want to ask: does art imitate life or life imitate art?”.

As part of an interactive project on the commission’s website, each billboard asks viewers to visit their local gallery and count the number of naked women featured in the art against the number of female artists in the collections on show. The numbers will be updated daily to reflect findings, interrogating the Guerrilla Girls’ salient question about whether art imitates life.

As part of Art Night’s aims to move towards a more devolved and decentralised way of working, we’ve brought the project to billboards in Birmingham, Dundee, Cardiff, Glasgow and London – with the full list of nationwide sites available here.