By women, about women
The role of women in society has evolved over the years. In the past, we were someone’s daughter and became someone’s wife without an identity of our own. In general sense we have moved on, but do we really benefit from our newly gained status? The Mutual Gallery has asked a group of women artists to address this issue in the upcoming exhibition “We Have Come A Long Way Baby?” starting on December 11.
The Gallery is inviting men and women to see how the artists participating in the exhibition have chosen to express their views, in painting: Jonna Brasch, Djamila Liniger, Kristina Newman, Seya Parboosingh, and Melisande Potter, in printmaking: Michelle Bright Chin-see (who will also present paintings), Judith Campbell Jones, Jacqueline Walker and Jan Watson Altenhofen, and in sculpture: Susan Alexander and Jannette Eyles. Drawings by Kereina Changfatt and Janette Collins, collages by Paula Daley and Sana Rose, ceramics by Norma Rodney Harrack and Leonia McIntosh, and jewellery items by artists, Jennifer Gibbs and Andrea Murray-Beckford complete the exhibition.
The exhibition comprises miniatures and works that are small in size but big on issues relating to women and features many aspects of womanhood, intrinsically our own. As women, we sometimes speak up – women in dancehall accept their sexuality and are free about it. Some go beyond what is permitted. Should we condemn it? We have come a long way, baby! Or have we?
This expose is by women, about women – our progression, regression and digression, and will be opened by Beverly Anderson Manley.
