March lecture
Zoom Lecture
Thursday 7th March 2024
7:30pm
‘‘From Banners to Badges: Arts and Crafts as Women’s Suffrage Propaganda’’
a Lecture by Dr Lucy Ella Rose
In Memory of Desna Greenhow
Suffrage banner designed and worked by Gertrude Jekyll, courtesy of Godalming Museum
To commemorate International Women’s Day 2024, this talk will explore women’s role in the Arts and Crafts Movement, supporting the women’s suffrage campaign that gathered momentum in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By exploring works - from banners designed by Mary Watts and Mary Lowndes, to jewellrydesigned by Ernestine Mills and Sylvia Pankhurst - this talk shows how women created striking symbols and colourways with an awareness of their powerful political potential. This talk highlights the suffragist contributions of local Surrey women artists such as Gertrude Jekyll and the Brackenbury sisters and Surrey as being the heart of suffrage activity.
Dr Lucy Ella Rose is a Lecturer in Surrey University specialising in Nineteenth century creative partnerships; women’s writings:Victorian visual culture; feminisms and women’s suffrage.
In 2019 Dr Rose published Suffragist Artists in Partnership.
Tickets ACMS Members £5. Non-members £6
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ZOOM DETAILS:
This is an online event to be delivered via Zoom and you will need to be familiar with how this operates in order to participate. Regrettably we do not have the capacity to provide any back-up or advice on the use of Zoom. Bookings will close 48 hours prior to commencement of the event. Your application will be acknowledged by email. Please note that this lecture will not be recorded.
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