Processions, Suffragette March, Artichoke Trust & The Turner Contemporary

Voorsanger, Jessica and Teresa, Limbrick and Ayesha, Aleem and Christianna, Knight and Amy, O'Meara and Katalina, Prom and Molly, Molloy and Millie, Kemp (2018) Processions, Suffragette March, Artichoke Trust & The Turner Contemporary. [Exhibition/show, Painting, Performance, Public art, Textiles]

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Suffragette March

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Suffragette March

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Suffragette March

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Creators:
Voorsanger, Jessica and Teresa, Limbrick and Ayesha, Aleem and Christianna, Knight and Amy, O'Meara and Katalina, Prom and Molly, Molloy and Millie, Kemp
Corporate or Group Creators:
14-18 NOW, Mencap, Ageless Thanet, WASPIs, Speak Up, Margate WI, Soropotists
Description/Abstract:

On the 10th of June 2018, over 100,000 women participated in a celebration of the Suffragettes and the Suffragists in marches across Great Britain. It was a mass participation artwork, which celebrated one hundred years of votes for women. 100 female artists were commissioned by Artichoke Trust and 14-18 NOW to work with organisations and communities across the UK to create banners for Processions. I was commissioned to work with Turner Contemporary to make a banner.

Together with 5 students from UCA Canterbury, POW! Thanet (Power of Women) Arts Festival and people from the Margate community I created a large-scale banner that was sewn, painted and embroidered. Each of the participants made a panel, which I put together to represent all of us and the women we were celebrating. We didn’t only create a banner but an entire performance, which included costumes, chants and ringing bells to establish our presence.

While many of the banners in the march were amazing ours stood out through our presence, performance, colours and scale. We were featured in several news items on local and national television as well as in newspapers. From my participation in the Processions project, I was later commissioned to create another procession. This one to be the opening event for the POW! Thanet Arts Festival on the 8th of March 2018 International Women’s Day). The procession that I created, led a group of over 250 people from Margate Station to Turner Contemporary. For this commission I worked with several groups in the community to create banners. They included UCA Canterbury, primary and secondary schools, Mencap, Ageless Thanet, the Soropotists, the WASPIs and the Margate WI. After the procession the banners were all exhibited in different locations around Thanet.

Item Type:
Art/Design Item
Date:
10 June 2018
Copyright Holders:
Jessica Voorsanger
Material:
fabric, ribbon, carpet, painted silk, painted vinyl, costumes, bells, poles, hats
Funders:
Artichoke Trust, 14-18 NOW, POW! Thanet
Locations / Venues:
Location
From Date
To Date
Margate
8 March 2019
London
10 June 2018
Related Exhibitions:
Assorted shops, pubs and locations in Thanet
Uncontrolled Keywords or tags :
Processions, Suffragette, March, Artichoke Trust, Turner Contemporar, POW!, Arts Festival, commission,
Schools:
School of Fine Art, Crafts & Photography
Related URLs:
Depositing User:
Ms Jessica Voorsanger
Date Deposited:
15 Oct 2019 09:55
Last Modified:
05 Mar 2022 04:30
Voorsanger, Jessica:
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9712-2095
Art/Design Categories:
Exhibition/show, Painting, Performance, Public art, Textiles
URI:
https://research.uca.ac.uk/id/eprint/5303

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