Digital Humanities Lab, Exeter

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Women’s Work (2024) is an artwork created by Ruth Broadway from patches sent to us by over 100 contributors as part of our Patchwork Object Project.

The object was made in Bristol in late 2024 and is composed of 195 patches, including the 148 patches we recieved from contributors around the world. It is a multimedia work that responds to the long tradition of banner making in feminist art; a pole can be threaded through loops of fabric at the top of the work, for it to be hung, carried, marched, celebrated. A fringe of tassels at the bottom of the work responds to textural elements in the patchwork and compounds the jubilant mood of the work.

Contributing artists, makers, and crafters responded to a call for patches themed around "women's creative identities and lives". Women's Work is the result of that collaboration. More information about the call can be found on the home and "About" pages of this website.

Art credit goes to Charlie Stanbrook (@stanbrookphotography on Instagram). Artwork features a collage of different newspaper cuttings that feature or mention the LGBTQ+ community. In the centre, there is a pink triangle made out of a collage of pink paper scraps. Above it is a cut out of David Bowie in his Aladdin Sane persona