Posts Tagged ‘Women’s sex based rights’
February Dark and Cold
February Dark and Cold, 2019 Meeting Gemma, (not her real name) Gemma is a very young woman – a girl when we first encounter her – 15 years old, being sold for sex on the street in Kings Cross, London. She is obviously in need of shelter on a night such as this. Hostels are…
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Christine Keeler: An Uncertain Pilgrim, 2019 Introduction Christine Keeler briefly became an international celebrity in the early 1960s. She came to prominence because she was being sexually exploited some very powerful men. The trafficker, as he would now be known, that is the man who made her available for sex to these men who were…
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Street Exit, 2019 Street Exit, 2019 60h x 28w cm photo: Sylvain Deleu From: ‘And the Door Opened,’ 2019-23 Street Exit is another of the pots that will be displayed in: Nature & Solitude, March 6th-8th, The Old Prison, Northleach, Gloucestershire, GL54 3JH. The Images on the Pot The images on the outside of the…
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2 Plus 2 Equals 5 Exploring Censorship in Art, 19202-20202 2 Plus 2 Equals 5 is the title of an exhibition at Not for Sale Gallery in Hackney Wick. The title is a reference to George Orwell’s use of the concept in 1984. ‘The Party’ adopts it as a fundamental tenet of belief to accustomise…
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Vice and Virtue: the artists Vice and Virtue is a mixed media exhibition by six artists who respond in substantially different ways to the rising religiosity of contemporary social justice movements. Much of the work was made specifically for the exhibition which continues until July 26th at Ruup & Form. This posts introduces the artists…
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Pimp State, 2021 Introduction Pimp State is both a bowl and poster. It is a dystopian feminist satire on what I imagine the State would look like under the ‘full decrim’ regime. ‘Full Decriminalisation’ refers to a proposed model of legal reform that seeks to decriminalise men who pay for sex along with all third…
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Feminist Jugs – Sink the Sex Trade! Feminist Jugs I love this picture of the my two new sgraffito ware jugs, photographed together, leading the fleet. Paired up like this seems to inject energy – they could almost be sailing. I’m particularly delighted with the way the handles look. They’re in the shop now. Go…
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Save Our Girls! Save Our Girls! Women’s protest, Tate Modern London On Friday 27th January, 2024 a group of about 84 women gathered outside Tate Modern, London to protest the mass rapes of women in Israel, by Hamas, on October 7th 2023. The breaking of a pre-existing cease-fire by Hamas to attack Israel that day…
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A Nasty Piece of Work We’re Women! 2021 Version 1, 38 diam x 16 high cm The bowl ‘We’re Women,’ featured in this post, is currently showing in ‘Feminist Satire, No Safe Spaces,’ @u_jazdowski Castle, Warsaw, until Oct 1st 2023 An earlier version of this piece, a fired clay ‘sketch,’ (private collection,) will also be on show…
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Berthe Morisot Exhibition Berthe Morisot: An Exhibition of her Paintings About the Artist The Dulwich Picture Gallery has staged a small exhibition of Berthe Morisot’s work focused exclusively on her paintings. Morisot came from a well to do family and was properly trained as an artist so she was able to pursue a career to…
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