EASTER SURPRISE!! Our new Feminist Lectures have hit the shelves, from Hilma Af Klint to Dressing Dykes and Women in Bauhaus, we've got you covered
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/london-drawing-group-11407647443 We're back with a brand new round of Monday Zoom feminist lectures, starting THIS MONDAY. From Dressing Dykes to Bauhaus Women, enjoy another 12 weeks of bloody fantastic talks, discussions and Q&As, all still for a donation fee. You'll find links below for the first half of the term! Thank you for your ongoing support. We hope you're able to join us this term! Love, Luisa and Sophie, your feminist lecture hosts x
COURAGE CALLS: CELEBRATING MINORITIES IN THE SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT
Take a look at how the suffragette movement began, its meaning, and its continuation into modern society despite changes over the past century. This Monday's lecture will discuss unseen minorities who pushed for women's rights in a world controlled by men.
BAUHAUS WOMEN: GENDER TROUBLE IN UTOPIA
The Bauhaus (1919-33) was a uniquely influential school and movement which informed how art and design came to be taught and created worldwide. Diversity of thought and expression were key tenets of the movement. However, for female Bauhauslers, this utopian modernist vision was not so accessible. Discover how women of the Bauhaus navigated their way within a liberal system that, nevertheless, did not always offer them equal opportunities.
SHE SHOOTS, SHE DRAWS: A HISTORY OF WOMEN IN ANIMATION
From Mary Ellen Bute’s computer-generated “electronic paintings” to Joy Batchelor’s pivotal role in producing the first British feature-length animation Animal Farm (1954), the genre-melting work of art school animators to the protest films of the feminist workshop movement, women have consistently worked at the cutting edge of this most innovative of artforms. Even within the male-dominated studios - Disney, Ghibli – women have fought their way up the drudge work of inking and finishing, to play active creative roles in shaping classics of the genre.
GIRLS LOVE INK 2: A HERSTORY OF TATTOO TRADITIONS AND... GENITAL TATTOOING
When we look back at the most ancient traditions of tattooing, women were very involved as both recipients and artists. In many ancient cultures, tattooing was in fact a women’s only art. That’s right, just for the ladies! Tattooing the body was a way to secure a seat with the ancestors in the afterlife, prepare and announce that a young girl was now a woman ready to marry and bear children, and often it was deeply linked with ideals of feminine beauty held.
DRESSING DYKES: A HISTORY OF LESBIAN FASHION
Lesbian Fashion: a non-chronological history' is a lecture about lesbian fashion over the last 200 years, approached in a non-chronological way. It will hop from Anne Lister, a lesbian heiress in the early 19th century, to the lesbian activist group the Lavender Menace in the 1970s, with many stops afterwards and in between.
ART VS CRAFT: TEXTILES AND GENDERED MATERIALS
Found at the fertile cross-section between fact and the fictive, Florence Carr’s practice is rooted in the structures of narrative. Debating the point of inevitable collision between ourselves and the natural environment.
