Two Photos by Sam Lane Photography
At the FiLia Conference Art Exhibition at UCL Institute of Education, 14-15 October 2017.
Left: “Jumping Girl” ~ chalk and pencil on canvas ~ 40 x 100 cm 2017
Right: Purple print on foam board ~ 40 x 100 cm 2017
With more than 70 other women artists, this was my third year as a participating in the FiLiA Conference Art exhibition.
Jumping Girl is a liberation-of-freedom-spirit drawing. I was inspired by the recent installation of a bronze sculpture by Kristen Visbal named Fearless Girl at Bowling Green in the Financial District of Manhattan, New York. The sculpture was installed on March 7, 2017 the day before International Women’s Day. Fearless Girl depicts a Latina girl facing the Charging Bull 0r Wall Street bull statue.
NB: The “Woman Power” symbol came about during the activism movements of the 1960’s and 1970’s. It is often associated with “radical feminism”. It is an adaptation of the Venus Symbol together with the raised fist is commonly associated with the symbol for Black Power in the sixties. On its own the Venus Symbol is not always thought to represent feminism. Combined with the raised first, it became the woman power symbol and became a symbol of feminism.
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