Lucy Day, Eliza Gluckman, Freddie Robbins, Unpicking the Narrative: Difficult Women, Difficult work. Textile: Journal of Cloth and Culture, pp311-318 23/3/18
Hierarchy of Value and gendered nature of materials.
FR. "The reality is the textiles are stills so strongly associated with the feminine that whenever a male artist employs the medium, it is viewed as unusual.
FR. Karen Wright, curator of Entangled: Threads and Making, did not set out to curate a show ... of female artists, (but)... focus(sed) on "the experimental hand and the process of making ... which ... led to an all female line-up:
FR. "I have no serious concern about the gender imbalance in the discipline and the gendered nature of textiles but I do have serious concerns about what this means in reality for those of us who practice through the medium. We continue to live in a made dominated society. The patriarchy looms large and usually fills and controls the purse. And whilst the patriarchy might appreciate textiles, for the most part it does not value it enough to invest in it. The hierarchy of value continues.
Working with textiles -v- thinking through the medium.
FR. "Through the physical act of making and the handling of materials, the work takes on an authentic voice and an authority. ... The act of making enables ideas to develop in different and often unexpected directions. The movements o the hands allow the thought processes to flow, giving ideas time to develop.
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