Magna Carta Women
Installation tour, 2014-15
Magna Carta Women is a large-scale collage and public art project that reflects on 800 years of women’s struggle for rights, recognition, and autonomy in Britain. Responding to the anniversary of the Magna Carta, the work foregrounds women whose contributions have been marginalised or overlooked within dominant historical narratives.
Inspired by the visual language of stained glass, the project brings together a constellation of historical figures, including Mary Wollstonecraft, Emmeline Pankhurst, Julian of Norwich, Janet Horne, Barbara Castle and Laura Bates, alongside key male allies who supported women’s rights. King John signing the Magna Carta forms a symbolic pathway through the work, situating women’s histories in relation to structures of power, resistance, and reform.
Supported by public funding from Arts Council England and Royal Holloway University of London, the project toured 17 venues across England and an edition is held in the Royal Holloway University collection.
Inspirational art that packs a feminist punch
'So, as I understood from the anniversary we were celebrating the simple ideas of freedom and justice, but what about the women and their gruelling journey of obstacles, prejudices and battles for the right to education, vote, equal pay and other basic human rights?'
