Sign Your Name

Fabric & thread
Images printed on fabric, collaged and hand stitched.
– The idea for my piece came from the inequality between male and female artists in receiving recognition and financial recompense. Elizabeth Gould (wife of ornithologist John Gould), created many of the drawings and paintings in his books, yet received only passing recognition.
Research by Helen Gorrill, the author of Women Can’t Paint, has studied the prices of 5,000 paintings sold and found that for every £1 a male artist earns for his work, a woman earns a mere 10p. She also found that while the value of a work by a man rises if he has signed it, the value of a work by a woman falls if she has signed it.

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