Past event
Between Women exhibition with the Travelling Gallery Featuring Franki Raffles, Sylvia Grace Borda, Sandra George, Carolyn Scott and Niu Weiyu
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 photography since the 1950s in Scotland and internationally.
Raffles' photographs appear alongside images by Sylvia Grace Borda, Sandra George, Carolyn Scott and Niu Weiyu which examine how gender is produced and reproduced through workplaces, housing and healthcare (particularly schools, playgrounds and nurseries) across both urban and rural landscapes.
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, race and class in activism and organising.
Travelling Gallery is a contemporary art gallery in a bus. Since 1978 it has been bringing exhibitions to communities throughout Scotland. For more information, visit the Travelling Gallery website. The bus will be open from 10am to 4pm. No need to book. All welcome!
There will also be an exhibition at the Wardlaw Museum until Sunday 11 May 2025. Say no! Art, Activism and Feminist Refusal also features work by Franki Raffles, alongside a range of contemporary artists that includes Alberta Whittle, Petra Bauer and Josie KO, working in various media. There will also be a Between Women Closing Event featuring photographers Jenny Brownrigg and Alicia Bruce, visual artist Christian Noelle Charles, Yanru Dong, The Bern and Ronny Schwartz Curator of Photography Lydia Heeley, Weitian Liu and Alistair Scott.
Between Women is curated by Vivian K Sheng and Catherine Spencer, with support from the St Andrews Impact and Innovation Fund. With thanks to the University of St Andrews Libraries and Museums, Edinburgh Napier University, Franki Raffles Estate, Craigmillar Now, Gaofan Photography Museum, Sylvia Grace Borda, and Carolyn Scott.