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Spirals of the spider’s web. Spinning and weaving. Inward and outward. Control and chaos. Control and freedom. The spiral can control chaos but it can also unravel. The emotional red is used in the spiral as symbolic of the cyclical nature of life and the extremes of emotion on the recycled tote bag. Louise Bourgeois Spirals, 2005 © The Easton Foundation / TATE London 2021
As a young girl, Louise Bourgeois was dyeing cloth, weaving and sewing in her parents’ tapestry studio in Paris. Bourgeois loved spiders. She described the spider as an artist, spinning thread and creating magnificent webs. It could also mend things like the restoring of tapestries in her childhood. “The spiral is an attempt at controlling the chaos.”
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The Guerrilla Girls street posters use humour and outrageous visuals to highlight the lack of art by women in public galleries. Sneaking around in the middle of the night they paste them up in cities all over the world. Celebrating their handwritten letter on the recycled tote bag. Curly, girlie handwriting on pink. Guerrilla Girls, Dearest Art Collector, 1986 © Guerrilla Girls. Purchased 2003. Tate London.
Each Guerrilla Girl takes the name of a woman artist to maintain anonymity and to honour brilliant artists. “You’re seeing less than half the picture without the vision of women artists and artists of colour.”
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The Guerrilla Girls street posters use humour and outrageous visuals to highlight the lack of art by women in public galleries. Sneaking around in the middle of the night they paste them up in cities all over the world. Celebrating their handwritten letter on the recycled tote bag. Curly, girlie handwriting on pink. Guerrilla Girls, Dearest Art Collector, 1986 © Guerrilla Girls. Purchased 2003. Tate London.
Each Guerrilla Girl takes the name of a woman artist to maintain anonymity and to honour brilliant artists. “You’re seeing less than half the picture without the vision of women artists and artists of colour.”
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Clarity. Rationality. Stripes of different hues, tones and intensity next to one another. Jean Spencer explores the effect one colour has in its neighbours on the recycled tote bag. Jean Spencer No Title, 1997 © Tate
Jean Mary Spencer 1942 – 1998 was a British artist known for her abstract paintings and relief sculptures. On display as part of the female artists since the 1950’s at the Tate London.
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Enigmatic Aria. Fascinating femininity. A glassy gaze. An elixir of light. Look luminous with Vermeer’s Girl with A Pearl Earring, ca. 1665 recycled tote bag. © Mauritshuis, The Hague Richly-colored ruminations. Serene interior scenes. Marvelous luminosity. 17th century Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer was well-known during his time but became world-famous long after his death for his delicate depictions of domestic life.
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