She Persists

‘What was a woman meant to be at this time of dynamic social change?’
Dr Maria Quirk

‘Women’s lives were regulated by gendered expectations and social constraints that dictated their roles and responsibilities as dutiful daughters, obedient wives, and devoted mothers, within a predominantly protestant religious framework.’
Lisa Mansfield

‘Determined to push the boundaries of their craft both artists drew inspiration from the liberating influence of modern dance.’
Dr Ted Gott

‘These dolls offer a window into the experience of women during a turbulent period of foreign occupation.’
Annika Aitken

‘The women’s work from Lajamanu community is both old and boldly new.’
Judith Ryan AM

‘As with many women that worked in a family business, it was not until the death of their husbands that they were able to assume their own identity.’
Amanda Dunsmore

‘Fumie Taniguchi was part of the first generation of women artists to challenge Japan’s historically male led artistic establishment.’
Annika Aitken

‘The Women’s suffrage movement in England was not just a momentous occasion in political history, it was also a turning point in the history of popular design, propaganda and dress.’
Dr Maria Quirk

‘Designers are challenging and expanding contemporary jewellery practice to tell new stories and act as a medium of social and political critique.’
Myf Doughty

‘The work of The Guerrilla Girls today is unflinching in their critique of institutions of power. They continue to ask the big and difficult questions, that remain as relevant in 2020 as they were in 1985.’
Megan Patty

‘The role of craftivism in society has the dual quality of intriguing people with its familiarity, and then challenging the viewer with its message’
Sigourney Jacks

‘A lot of progress has been made in recent years, but Emily Floyd’s work reminds us that many of the issues that women faced generations ago still remain today.’
Jane Devery

‘These works are powerful manifestations of this matriarchal strength and power that first nations women carry.’
Kimberley Moulton

‘Art can not only teach the people who are not part of those identities, that those identities are not the enemy, but it can teach people from within the LGBTQI community that our community, and our identity, is something to be proud of and not something to be ashamed of.’
Claire Coleman

‘Said’s flag design is simple yet powerful and communicates a global message of empowerment and acceptance of all refugees. The acquisition of these flags recognises their status as important design milestones.’
Meg Slater

‘The stories of Frances Burke and Joyce Coffey illuminate two modes by which women entered the design profession in the middle dec­ades of the twentieth century.’
Harriet Edquist