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Abstract
The ‘Women & Domesticity – What’s your Perspective?’ collaborative arts project, run by artist and academic Vanessa Marr since 2014, explores contemporary perspectives on the everyday lives of women. Through an open call, participants are invited to embroider their domestic thoughts, feelings, complaints, and celebrations as words or images onto a yellow duster. Each duster is unique and hand-stitched, transforming it from cleaning cloth to craftivist act. The ever-growing collection includes hundreds of dusters that have been exhibited and presented widely in community, creative and academic contexts across the UK, mainland Europe, and Florida, USA.
Dusters were selected for embroidery and display as a metaphor for domesticity because they are mundane (like most domestic tasks), yet visually appealing in their brilliant bright yellow. This practice asks how hidden and silenced female domestic experiences can be voiced through collective craft practice, and explores how the duster, which signifies domesticity through our cultural knowledge of its purpose as a cleaning cloth, can act as a catalyst for change through collective making. Vanessa regularly promotes this work through exhibition in arts venues, community workshops, and academic publication.
Dusters were selected for embroidery and display as a metaphor for domesticity because they are mundane (like most domestic tasks), yet visually appealing in their brilliant bright yellow. This practice asks how hidden and silenced female domestic experiences can be voiced through collective craft practice, and explores how the duster, which signifies domesticity through our cultural knowledge of its purpose as a cleaning cloth, can act as a catalyst for change through collective making. Vanessa regularly promotes this work through exhibition in arts venues, community workshops, and academic publication.
Original language | English |
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Publication status | Published - Jun 2024 |
Event | Tangled Up - Sunnybank Mills, Leeds, United Kingdom Duration: 27 Apr 2024 → 30 Jun 2024 https://www.sunnybankmills.co.uk/tangled-up/ |
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Domestic Dusters Craftivist Workshop: Embroider you own duster as an act of resistance!
Marr, V. (Participant)
8 Jun 2024Activity: Events › Workshop
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Domestic Dusters: Collaborative embroidery as an act of resistance
Marr, V. (Presenter)
7 Jun 2024Activity: External talk or presentation › Invited talk