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Women’s Work is a group exhibition in which a range of artforms and approaches challenge the way women’s roles in society, and as artists, have been defined and limited. This group show weaves together work by women and nonbinary artists from a spectrum of backgrounds, ages and practices that present varied perspectives on women’s experience. The exhibition features quilts, clothing, soft and hard sculpture, embroidery, photography, painting, collage, jewellery and installation.

Women’s Work celebrates the decorative and applied arts, such as textiles, weaving and ceramics, that were once were separated from Western conceptions of the so-called ‘high arts’ of painting and sculpture. It also provides provocations through the way the artists approach their material and subject matter: from delicate embroidery depicting emotions spurred by exploitation, to a large scale painting that adopts the style of the “Old Masters” masters in a feminist reframing of the role of a mythical woman.

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