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A Handbag for the Pageant of Great Women Installation

Morwenna Catt

United Kingdom

Installation, Textile on Soft (Yarn, Cotton, Fabric)

Size: 24 W x 18 H x 8 D in

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About The Artwork

This piece is from a series about Women's Suffrage and in particular the Suffrage play of 1909 by Cicely Mary Hamilton "The Pageant of Great Women", in which great women of the past engaged in dialogue with women of 1909. The embroidered handbag is illustrated with drawings and slogans from the suffragette movement and set with masonic metal fixings and tassals from a Masonic apron. There are five textile dolls accompanying the handbag. The figures are (left to right); Vivienne Westwood as Elizabeth I, Boudicca, Rani Lakshmibai, Joan of Arc and Marie Curie. The piece was created specifically for an exhibition called 'Suffrage'. Catalogue available here: http://www.lgac.org.uk/catalogues/item/suffrage-2

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Installation:Textile on Soft (Yarn, Cotton, Fabric)

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:24 W x 18 H x 8 D in

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Born UK. Morwenna has a degree in Art & Design and graduated with a Masters in Fine Art from Leeds Metropolitan University. Her current practice includes textiles, painting, drawing, light boxes, installation and sculpture. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally; notably at The Museum of Arts and Design in New York, Galerija Skuc in Ljubljana and Jack the Pelican in New York. She began to work with textiles as a post graduate student and is now best known for her embroidered 2D and sculptural works. For many years she has also designed and created extravagant costumes and public works. Morwenna has worked as a resident artist within Museum settings producing new work and larger scale commissions in response to collections at historical venues including commissions for English Heritage. Artist Statement: I began my artistic career as a Painter & Illustrator but I’m now best known for my embroidered 2D and sculptural textiles. My work is playful with a dark, sometimes subversive, edge. I like to populate spaces with a menagerie of animal or half-animal creatures and they often have their roots in familiar archetypes from Fairy Tales or from a mythological and nostalgic past. I love folklore and objects which have totemic or magical connotations. I am, by nature, a collector, gathering ‘treasure’ like a Magpie; objects, ephemera, rags, clothes, photographs, poems, texts – things used and worn away by human contact. I have a sense that a person retains a spark of life through the collecting and treasuring of things and the stories (real or imagined) that can be told about them.”

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