Friday 30th November 11.00-1.00 Sallis Benney lecture theatre
Curator Lucy Day will come and talk about her practice including the year long project A WOMAN’S PLACE AT KNOLE
KNOLE HOUSE, SEVENOAKS, KENT, TN15 0RP
17 MAY –4 NOVEMBER 2018
17 MAY –4 NOVEMBER 2018
Commissioned artists, Lubaina Himid, CJ Mahony, Lindsay Seers, Emily Speed, Alice May Williams & Melanie Wilson. Curated by Lucy Day & Eliza Gluckman.A Woman’s Place at Knole shines a light on historical women’s voices, marking 100 years since the Representation of the People Act that gave women the vote in the UK for the first time. Women had to be over 30 and either they, or their husband, meet a property qualification.
This critical moment in history is no better illustrated than at Knole where the rules of inheritance impacted so significantly on the women who lived there. 2017 Turner Prize winner Lubaina Himid joins five other commissioned artists responding through different media – sculpture, sound, film, interventions and a website, with works that encompass love, betrayal, class, gender and inheritance.
This critical moment in history is no better illustrated than at Knole where the rules of inheritance impacted so significantly on the women who lived there. 2017 Turner Prize winner Lubaina Himid joins five other commissioned artists responding through different media – sculpture, sound, film, interventions and a website, with works that encompass love, betrayal, class, gender and inheritance.
The National Trust’s Women and Power is a year-long programme of events and exhibitions celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Representation of the People Act through the telling of less-known and often hidden stories of women at Trust places, including some of those involved in the fight for suffrage.
