Who Gets to Be Seen: An Evening at Sketch

27th April 2026

The Cherie Blair Foundation for Women gathered in one of London's most storied rooms: the Lecture Room & Library at the Sketch London Restaurant in Mayfair - a space that a century ago hosted the Suffragette movement.

Cherie Blair sat down with artist Rayvenn Shaleigha D'Clark for a conversation about art, power, and what it truly means to reclaim space - in art, in business, and in the stories about women. Rayvenn’s sculpture, Mother Vérité, captures a moment in a woman's life that is almost universal, yet almost entirely absent from public space, and it speaks directly to a question that has shaped Cherie’s work: who is represented, and who is left out. As Rayvenn observed, "Art and entrepreneurship face the same fight — who gets to take up space and who decides."

This is a question Cherie encounters often through her Foundation, which has supported over 300,000 women who possess the ideas and resilience to succeed but lack access to finance, networks, and markets. One of them, June Ng'ang'a in Nairobi, now sells her beadwork internationally and describes the impact simply: "Every sale is a lifeline — a child in school, a family fed."

Thank you to Rayvenn who so generously donated her sculpture to the Foundation - a beautiful, purposeful piece that directly supports women entrepreneurs around the world – and to MTArt Agency for their extraordinary generosity and collaboration. A heartfelt thank you to Marine Tanguy and Cecile Reinaud for making the evening possible.