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Image from Spinning Plates, 2005
Photo: Francis Kearney, Magic Me
An umbrella from the HEBA Project
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What Women Want: Stories from The Women’s Library featured artwork from community groups alongside the Library’s historical material and work from BA Fine Art students from London Metropolitan University.
Spinning Plates
Spinning Plates was carried out with intergenerational arts charity Magic me, bringing together elders and schoolgirls from Tower Hamlets. Participants explored domesticity using The Women’s Library collections, writing poetry and creating photographic artwork. The results were published in a calendar and displayed in our What Women Want exhibition. The project was funded by the St Katharine and Shadwell Trust, the Lucas-Tooth Trust and Mulberry School.
Textile work
Fourteen women from HEBA women’s project (a skills and training agency for women based in Brick Lane) responded to the themes in the What Women Want exhibition and developed a number of them for their own creative work. They produced a series of decorated umbrellas that explored the participants’ hopes and desires, for display in the exhibition. The medium of the umbrella was chosen as an effective and visible way to express the women's creative statements.
More information
- What Women Want 2005-6
- Past learning projects home page
External links (opens in new window)
- Magic Me
- HEBA
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