Art not Words! Women’s Suffrage: How Art and Design Helped the Cause
About this Event
The word 'Suffragette' first appeared in The Daily Mail on 10th January 1906. A derogatory term, it was used to distinguish the women who used direct action to campaign for the vote from the 'Suffragists', who used constitutional methods.
These lectures focus on the use of art and design to promote the aims of the Suffragettes - the first pressure group to use recognisably modern PR tactics - but in doing so they also embrace the Suffragist movement more widely.
The abilities of artists such as Sylvia Pankhurst, daughter of Emmeline and sister of Christabel, increased the impact of the Suffragette's message. The same was true of the artist's belonging to The Artists' Suffrage League, such as Mary Lowndes, Dora Meeson Coates and Caroline Watts, whose innovative work and design talents supported the activities of the Suffragists.
Art and design supported the aims of the Suffrage movement through diverse artistic media such as paintings, posters, cartoons, lapel,badges, jewellery and wall-hangings. This lecture examines a range of works that made a difference.
Our lecturer, Vivienne Lawes, is an art historian, author and journalist with over 25 years experience in the art market. She teaches at several Higher Education institutions, including Sotheby's Institute of Art, London, where she leads the professional certificate in Art History, as well as The University of the Arts, London, Imperial College, SOAS (University of London) and the City & Guilds of London Art School. In 2021 she received the Geoffrey Bond Bursary for Art, an annual prize awarded by the Worshipful Company of Educators to an "outstanding educator" nominated by their institution.
Vivienne's articles, essays and reports have been published in numerous specialist journals, newspaper , catalogues, handbooks and websites, aimed at both the academic and general readership in print and online.
Since 2011 Vivienne has been Senior Consultant to Singapore gallery One East Asia and has co-curated many exhibitions of Southeast Asian modern and contemporary art in London and Singapore. When time allows she lectures as an on-board historian for cruise lines.
Awards, Qualifications & Memberships:
PhD Art History candidate, University of Warwick
Education Committee Member, The worshipful Company of Arts Scholars
PGCE Secondary (History)
Agenda
🕑: 10:45 AM - 01:15 PM
Art not Words! Women’s Suffrage: How Art & Design Helped the Cause
Host: Vivienne Lawes
🕑: 10:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Registration
🕑: 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM
Lecture One
🕑: 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM
Break
🕑: 12:15 PM - 01:15 PM
Lecture Two
Where is it happening?
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
GBP 30.00
