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Juliet Fleming and Sarah-Joy Ford, I want, I want 1 (detail), 2018, cotton, digitally printed cotton, thread, wool, satin ribbon, 200x150cm. Photo: courtesy of the artists
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Juliet Fleming and Sarah-Joy Ford, I want, I want 2 (detail), 2018, cotton, digitally printed cotton, thread, wool, satin ribbon, 200x150cm. Photo: courtesy of the artists
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Juliet Fleming and Sarah-Joy Ford, Arrow, 2018, glazed ceramic stoneware, 35x25x20cm. Photo: courtesy of the artists
Exhibition
Juliet Fleming and Sarah-Joy Ford: Hard Craft
15 Nov 2018 – 15 Dec 2018
Regular hours
- Thursday
- 12:00 – 17:00
- Friday
- 12:00 – 17:00
- Saturday
- 12:00 – 17:00
- Wednesday
- 12:00 – 17:00
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- Orbis Community
- 65 High Street
- Gateshead
England - NE8 2AP
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Nearest bus station: Gateshead Interchange
- Nearest Metro station: Gateshead Metro
- Nearest Railway station: Newcastle Central
Women, like craft, are often portrayed as pleasant and placid. This exhibition celebrates protest and outrage, stitched into fabric and fired in the kiln.
About
The suffragettes created a visual language of resistance through posters, pamphlets, banners, sashes, handkerchief-petitions and ceramic tableware. Many seemingly domestic objects became weapons of dissent and symbols for a societal revolution. On the 100-year anniversary of partial women’s suffrage in the UK, this exhibition of collaborative work draws upon the material histories of dis-obedient craft.
Alongside the aesthetics of protest the exhibition also responds to the history of anti-suffragette propaganda. In particular the use of animalistic imagery that has long been a method employed to oppress and degrade marginalised groups as lesser, other and sub- or non-human. Here the artists are reclaiming an old insult depicting women as cats; gathering together symbols of female power and resistance. Through craft techniques these works celebrate a radical past, acknowledge the continuing struggle for equal rights, and make a hopeful gesture toward a feminist future.
Juliet Fleming was born in London in 1991 and lives in Newcastle upon Tyne. She is the Director of GOLDTAPPED, an artist-led initiative providing space for experimentation, development and support emerging artist practices.
Sarah-Joy Ford was born in Cheshire in 1993 and lives in Manchester. She is co-director of SEIZE Projects, Leeds, and the Queer Research Network Manchester.
