Nick Willing

And that's why those pictures are so fresh and powerful is because they come from a real place.

Well, because she owns the copyright of the pictures...

There was a magazine that contacted me, as it was because I was running her archive then already.

This is shortly before she died, 2021 or 22.

And there was a magazine that asked if they could reproduce one of her abortion pastels in Texas, just when they had criminalized abortion again.

You know, Roe v. Wade had just been overturned.

So I asked, oh, can I have a look at the article?

And it was an article basically against abortion.

So I asked mum, oh, I know mum, you always say, let people do what they like with the pictures.

But in this case, they want to use your picture against abortion.

And she said, oh, no, no, darling, that's not what they're for.

So she said, no, they can't have the picture.

And now we're always very careful to check because we get at least 15, maybe 20 reproduction requests a week for pictures in books, magazines and the like.

And probably 20, 30% of those requests involve the abortion series, interestingly.

I think it is very interesting to me what I'm seeing happening now with regard to Paula's work.

Because we have had requests for more museum shows than ever before.

We have between now and 2029, which is the next three years, 32 museum shows.

In major museums throughout the world.

And what I'm seeing when I'm asking, I'm wondering what the hell happened.

Why is there such an interest in her work?