Episode 6: Visual Activism

How did artists use their creativity and skills to get behind feminist causes? What issues did they engage with? Were they all working within ‘the women’s movement’? How do the agitprop makers feel about their being shown in galleries today? And how did women get involved in campaigning outside of their art practices? Ana Baeza Ruiz explores interviews in the Feminist Art Making Histories archive where women talked about making work as a political statement, rallying cry or campaign tool. Ana is a lecturer at the Institute of Cultural Practices at the University of Manchester. She’s also one of the researchers on the Feminist Art Making Histories team. Featuring edited clips from interviews with Pen Dalton; Pru Stevenson, Suzy Mackie and Anne Robinson of See Red Women’s Workshop; Terri Wragg; Sally Greenhill, Liz Heron, Michael Ann Mullen, Maggie Murray and Christine Roche of Hackney Flashers; Loraine Leeson; Marlene Smith; and Ailbhe Smyth. Produced by Rosie Oliver – www.rosieoliver.co.uk Follow us on Instagram - @feministartlives Find out about the Feminist Art Making Histories project via www.famh.art Explore the Feminist Art Making Histories archive via the Digital Repository of Ireland https://repository.dri.ie/objects/4742q334c/doi/4742q334c