Anusha Edwards, by Rebecca Sellick and Dawn White, North Bristol NHS Trust
Insight: Portraits of Women in Surgery
6th February–18th April 2026
Wednesdays–Saturdays
Free Entry
An exhibition shining a spotlight on women in surgery working across the UK today, offering an intimate and contemporary look at surgical life.
Open throughout International Women’s Month and beyond, the exhibition brings together women surgeons from different surgical specialities, career stages, and regions across the UK. The exhibition also lays bare the contrast between progress and persistent inequality. While women now make up over half of doctors, only about 17% of consultant surgeons in the UK are female, with 36% of doctors in surgical training being women.
All the surgeons featured are members of the Women in Surgery Network (WinS), a national initiative dedicated to encouraging, enabling and inspiring women to fulfil their surgical career ambitions.
The portraits are set in environments reflective of their work and the majority were taken by NHS trust staff, including many specialist clinical photographers from the Medical Photography departments of each hospital.
Professor Felicity Meyer, by Wayne Fysh, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn NHS Foundation Trust
The patients are the best thing about being a surgeon. It’s a real privilege that people trust us with their very being and I learn something new from them every day.
Evelyn Ong, by Bethany Stanley, Birmingham Women’s and Children’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Find your passion and follow it to wherever it may take you, even to those unexpected places you never anticipated at the beginning of your medical training.
Sarah Farmer, by Lorna Jones, Aneurin Bevan Univerity Health Board
I love the operating theatre environment; the way that a team of people with different skills work together to achieve a common goal.