- Venue
- The Link Gallery
- Starts
- Wednesday, June 8, 2011
- Ends
- Friday, July 8, 2011
- Address
- The Link Gallery University of Winchester West Downs Campus Romsey Road Winchester SO22 5HT
- Location
- South East England
The theme of this year’s annual Women’s Work exhibition is ‘HerStory’, so the focus is on narrative. It is a theme that invites reflections on women’s lives from many angles, and in a great variety of media, from painting and printmaking through to collage, sewn and sculptured works, and an atmospheric backlit installation. Work hung on the walls includes figurative images of family scenes, powerful or wryly observed; exquisitely woven tapestries on both the joy and sorrow attendant on childbirth; a ‘dress for mother’ from an imaginatively folded apron. Views of ‘Her Story’ are sometimes naturalistic, sometimes almost surrealistic, and sometimes semi-abstract as with a series of etchings inspired by body-scans or book-forms. Other artists interpret the idea of narrative in terms of artistic process, as in graphic ‘daily doodles’ or a group of smoke-fired pebbles. There is social comment on the cultural forces that can control a woman’s vision, such as the view from inside and outside a burkha, or historical reflections through photo-montage on a 60’s childhood; and the concept of making choices is crafted in finely folded paper that revisits a popular children’s game.
