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Jessica Calderwood, a sculptor, image maker, and jeweler, uses the medium of enameling to explore issues of gender and identity, and to make statements about everyday life.
Mar 4, 2019 · Through portraits and self-portraits, landscapes and cityscapes, industrial scenes and images of war, the exhibition considers the ways in which women contested visual culture in twentieth-century Britain. For a woman artist, the very act of painting or sculpting (rather than being a daughter, wife or mother) was in itself a bold statement.
Through scholarship and exhibitions, readings have been put in place to counter prevailing assumptions that artistic creativity is primarily a masculin affair. Women artists have been set apart from male artists not only to their own disadvantage but also to the detriment of British art as a whole. While there were some improvements for women ...
Jessica Calderwood is an image-maker and sculptor that works in obscure craft media. Trained as a metalsmith and enamelist, her objects and images make statements about contemporary life.
Sep 21, 2022 · Sahara Longe, Tala Madani, Jenna Gribbon, and more are redefining the canon and centering female perspectives that eschew rigid definitions of feminist art.
The exhibition brings together major pieces of Calder jewellery from around the world, presented amongst iconic images of the jewellery being worn on notable women throughout history, as well as contemporary images commissioned especially for the show.
Women in Revolt! explores key themes and issues, such as the Women’s Liberation Movement, maternal and domestic experiences, Punk and independent music, Greenham Common and the peace movement, the visibility of Black and South Asian women artists, Section 28 and the AIDS epidemic.
