In conversations with my peers, and through my own experiences, I have discovered that identifying as a feminist elicits complicated, confusing and often disturbing responses:
Category: Herstories
Lizzie Philps and Anna Haydock-Wilson in converstation We have been researching at the Women’s Art…
‘I would like to nominate Rose Frain, a wonderfully fierce artist and feminist who has…
‘I am a Chilean artist and psychologist. I research, both theoretical and pictorial, the image of the female body grounded in my cultural context.
Melanie Bonajo’s (b. 1978) artistic practice is shaped by her critical stance towards the state of our world.
I first came across Jo Spence in the 1980’s when I was about to graduate…
My walking practice aims to challenge the ‘natural’ landscape as mother. I get a bit…
This artist’s herstory was introduced by filmmaker Emma Windsor who is inspired by Cegavske’s exploration of ‘love, death and everything beautiful and terrifying about the natural world’.
We want to celebrate the ‘cracks’ as often we only have those times and spaces to work in. We also value the work we make in collaboration, in the spaces between each other. The title of the project is adapted from a piece written by Rosy Wilson, entitled ‘Finding Room to Write in the Cracks of Family Life’ She wrote about the difficulty of finding time, even in retirement.
“What we need to do as women artists… is to take chances, not to trivialise what we are doing to please the picture buying public. We need to push our skills to the extreme and not fret if those skills are not all that we desire, or be surprised if we are not loved”
Jacqueline Morreau
Art within the Cracks 