See red women's workshop: feminist posters 1974 -1990
- Submitting institution
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Middlesex University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 1672
- Type
- L - Artefact
- Location
- Four Corners Books, London, UK
- Open access status
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- Month of production
- September
- Year of production
- 2016
- URL
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http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/24545/
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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3
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This collectively written book is contextualised with materials from exhibitions, texts and symposia arising from its publication. See Red Women’s Workshop (SRWW), a feminist art/poster collective of which Robinson was a member, made silkscreen printed posters and artefacts on sexism, sexuality, identity and oppression and was based in London 1974 to 1990. SRWW were invited to produce this book by Four Corners Press, following academic and curatorial interest evidenced by shows at ICA and Showroom and works in public collection such as V&A.
Four former SRWW members engaged in extensive research over two years and compiled an accurate archive of the works, using additional visual ephemera and interviews to give a full account of SRWW’s history. The text was co-written in a strategic and rigorous collective process. Bringing this important work into the public domain provides a valuable asset for researchers, artists, academics and campaigners engaged with Visual Cultures, Social History, Media Studies and Feminist Histories of Art and Design. The book contains all original silkscreen posters from a 16-year period, previously unavailable within even specialist archives, e.g. Bishopsgate. Produced by collective members, the book is thus a unique auto-ethnographical project, whose significant lies in re-presenting an historical moment and in the mode of re-contextualisation.
‘See Red Women’s Workshop is a snapshot of a particular creative and social moment in the women’s movement.’ (Jo Harrison, Visual Studies, 2017). With a foreword by feminist historian Sheila Rowbothom, the book’s contemporary, dynamic and ongoing relevance is evidenced by requests from artists, academics, activists, galleries and publications with works included in major exhibitions, archives and collections: Still I Rise at Notts Contemporary, De la Warr Pavillion and Arnolfini and Internationales Graphiques. Collections d’affiches politiques and SRWW engaged in the forthcoming Unfinished Business at British Library, 2020.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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