Between Women Closing Event

Between Women Closing Event with Jenny Brownrigg, Alicia Bruce, Christian Noelle Charles, Yanru Dong, Lydia Heeley, Weitian Liu and Alistair Scott

Friday 21st Feb, 4-7.30pm

Celebrating the last day of the Travelling Gallery exhibition Between Women: Franki Raffles, Sylvia Grace Borda, Sandra George, Carolyn Scott and Niu Weiyu (17–21 February 2024). Join the gallery for an event at The Wardlaw Museum bringing together artists, curators and researchers whose work relates and responds to photographers and themes in the exhibition, followed by a reception.

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.