Submissions invited for Town House Open 24 and Women and Word portraits by Daisy Harcourt March 21st – April 21st
Before the Open I’m delighted to be hosting Women & Word, portraits by Daisy Harcourt at Town House for the first exhibition of the year here 21st March – 21st April.
For this collaborative project Daisy Harcourt invited 14 contemporary women to write about their formative experiences of the written and spoken word. The responses from the women included their favourite words, writers, novels, poems and lyrics and Daisy then created each woman’s portrait while considering their written piece. It was during this process that she noticed many interesting connections between the 14 women, in particular a joy of the expressive quality of words and the way words had enabled their younger selves to appreciate and understand other worlds and ways of thinking.
Participants in Women & Word:
Charlotte Deal (artist)
Christina Rauh Fishburne (writer, illustrator)
Hannah Squire (art historian curator)
Harriet Olsen (publisher)
Jo Sweeting (artist)
Katie Pankowski (writer)
Dr Laura Varnam (lecturer, poet)
Louisa Thomsen Brits (writer)
Louise Mary Law (teacher, poet)
Mia Edwards (writer)
Nina Mingya Powles (poet)
Rachel Giles (writer)
Serena Fokschaner (writer, journalist)
Sheela Banerjee (writer, academic)