The Art of Fiction

18 Dec

Women and creativity

This project, led by Dr Patricia Zakreski of Exeter University, invited people to submit a piece of material and an accompanying story that fit with the theme of stories about women’s creative identities. The project asked: Is there a creative woman who has particularly inspired you? Do you have stories about female friends and family members? Is the craft that your mother/grandmother taught you art? Are you a creative woman who has a story to tell about your own experience? It encouraged people to think about women’s protest craft, suffragette art, craftivism, textile art as community building, and stitching and wellbeing.
Artist Ruth Broadway was commissioned to assemble the work which will be on show here. The creation of this patchwork object forms part of a wider project on the history of art making, titled The Art of Fiction: Women’s Writing and the Decorative Arts.