Come Together Right Now

Jacob V Joyce Artist Provocation

Choose a moment in activist and liberation struggle history which you feel represents a stride towards collective freedom. Try to pick a historical moment that has not been overrepresented in pop culture already and which happened on a specific date/location. The historical moment can be as small as a conversation between two people or as large as a city-wide riot.

As a group imagine how this event could be re-enacted through visual art that engages a large community or group of people.

Discuss how this re-enactment might alter the historical framing through which this event has typically been understood

Discuss how the format of this artwork/ historical re-enactment could be replicated to reimagine other historical moments of tension.

These pictures, represent the work I've created in response to Jacob V Joyce Artist Provocation as written about above.

I chose to explore the forgotten history's of women from medicine.

Considering memory, movement and idea's around representation.

Can painting re-imagine re-write our forgotten histories? Through painting these people of history is it a form of embodiment by responding to an archive.

I’ve been exploring women’s medical history within the book of Women in White Coats by Olivia Campbell: Within this book the author has fictionalised conservations and re-constructed historically narratives.

I explored the story's and narratives of James Barry (born Margaret Ann Bulkley. Some speculate he was considered the first female born doctor.)

Elizabeth Blackwell

Sophia Jen - Black

Elizabeth Garrett

Looking at those moments in history where women struggled to gain and education and fought against sexist stereotyping to be given a place at the medical table. Thinking about ideas around erased from history. How you are represented after your death. The lack of control, of story, narrative and image. Using found imagery, to create ghostly inky outcomes. Working from memory, using fluid watery placement first to create the shapes and composition. Then adding ink, to give more of indication of the individual. However, as you can see the image becomes distorted and elements fade.

Thorough out history we have had women healers prior to the women and men. I’ve painted. However, women healer. In 1421, English physicians, petitioned parliament to ban women from performing medicine. When eve church stepped in between 1400-1700 Catholic and Lutheran churches crated a campaign across Europe of wise women, banding then witches and sorceresses. P14

This experience of presenting online using Miro board, for me was an absolute disaster. My laptop has recently died and I'm using one from University. Therefore I can't grant access to share screen, or other useful things. This means, I had to connect via my phone. Unfortunately worked called me twice during my presentation and I just completely lost my train of thought and just count remotely recall what my work was about or why I had made it.

This image represents how I could represent my 'women in white coats'. The first female and transgender doctors of the past. Neatly places inside my Lloyd George risograph envelopes.

I love the idea that these images are tucked away and hidden. They are reminiscent to the experience I had at the feminist Library rummaging though their folders and files searching for hidden figures and narratives of the past.