Tour of The Sleepers exhibition at The Women's Art Collection in Cambridge

About the event:

Join us for a tour of the exhibition The Sleepers at The Women's Art Collection in Cambridge, in partnership with Crafts Council. Led by Laura Moseley, Assistant Curator of The WAC, attendees will have the opportunity to view works by 12 artists exploring sleep, rest, and dreams.

Beginning at 11 am, attendees will meet Laura and the Crafts Council team at the gallery entrance. Laura will guide you through the exhibition, and there will be time at the end of the tour to ask her any questions. The tour will end at noon, with the option for attendees to spend further time in the exhibition and Collection. The Collection closes at 6 pm.

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About the exhibition:

Scenes of rest have long been a generative motif for women artists, helping them to articulate complex and differing experiences of family, health and work. The Sleepers brings together works across a variety of mediums: paintings, prints and textiles, including a collaborative quilt.

Taking its name from one of the three prints on display by wood engraver and painter Gwen Raverat (1885–1957), The Sleepers surveys works by 12 artists to explore why sleeping, dreaming and resting have been depicted by women artists. It also asks us to consider who has access to these vital moments of relief and respite.

Objects, places, and phrases associated with rest are stitched into a community quilt by local Cambridge women for the exhibition. This quilt has been created with two Cambridge community groups: the Cambridge Women’s Resource Centre (CWRC), who provide a range of services for women in Cambridge, and Sew Positive, who help those experiencing social exclusion to care for their mental health through craft. Over a period of 6 months, the Art Group at the CWRC worked with The Women’s Art Collection and Cait Moreton-Lisle in a series of conversational workshops to explore their relationship to rest and sleep, whilst working on a square of fabric to capture their creative responses.

This exhibition and its accompanying programme and booklet aim to unpack the differing relationships between women and rest, and consider how they inform our understandings of time, labour, and care.

Discover more about the exhibition, by visiting The Women's Art Collection website.

Info: Attendees meet Laura Moseley and Crafts Council team at the Women's Art Collection entrance

Info: Led by the Assistant Curator, Laura Moseley, attendees will visit the show

Info: Attendees can ask their questions to Laura about the exhibition

Info: Attendees have the opportunity to spend further time in the exhibition if they wish, before the closure of the Collection for the day at 6pm.

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