Past event
Between Women Closing Event Jenny Brownrigg, Alicia Bruce, Christian Noelle Charles, Yanru Dong, Lydia Heeley, Weitian Liu, Alistair Scott
Join us to celebrate the last day of the Travelling Gallery exhibition Between Women: Franki Raffles, Sylvia Grace Borda, Sandra George, Carolyn Scott and Niu Weiyu, which runs from Monday 17 to Friday 21 February 2025, for an event bringing together artists, curators and researchers whose work relates and responds to photographers and themes in the exhibition.
Before the event starts, there will be a chance to view Between Women at the Travelling Gallery, which will be parked in the East Sands Leisure Centre Car Park from 10am to 4pm. There will also be an opportunity to see the group exhibition Say no! Art, Activism and Feminist Refusal, which features Franki Raffles' work and will be on display in the Wardlaw Museum from 10am to 5pm.
Between Women takes images made by the photographer Franki Raffles from her base in Edinburgh during the 1980s and 1990s as a starting point to explore relationships between gender, labour, education, care and activism in documentary photography since the 1950s in Scotland and internationally.
Raffles' photographs will appear alongside images by Sylvia Grace Borda, Sandra George, Carolyn Scott and Niu Weiyu, which together illuminate how gender is produced and reproduced through workplaces, housing, healthcare and, particularly schools, playgrounds and nurseries, across urban and rural landscapes. Together these photographs highlight the possibilities for solidarity between women in sites and spaces spanning the local and the global, but also the importance of recognising differences and intersectional identities that account for the constructs of gender, sexuality, race, disability and class in activism and organising.
The exhibition and programming have been organised by Vivian K Sheng and Catherine Spencer, with support from the University of St Andrews Impact and Innovation Fund.
The event will be followed by a reception.