Women from Artlink’s Curious Routes and Artlink’s Glasshouses arts for mental health projects came together to design and make banners in celebration of 100 years of women voting in the UK in collaboration with Processions public art project.
PROCESSIONS was a once-in-a-lifetime mass participation artwork which celebrated one hundred years of votes for women.
Processions was created by Art production company Artichoke who invited 100 community groups, organisations, women and girls from across the country to create hand crafted banners to mark the 100 years. Together women and girls walked the marching route the suffragettes took over 100 years ago in Edinburgh.
Women were interested in coming together to share their creative skills and ideas from these two different Artlink projects, one based in the community and other in the Royal Edinburgh Hospital. Over 10 weeks these women worked together to design and create two beautiful hand crafted banners using sewing, fabric collage techniques, writing and political poetry.
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Meg photographed the profiles or everyone women involved in the project and we used these to create the shapes for one of the banners.
We’re captured in the back there on BBC Scotland news!!