International Women's Day 2018 // Collections
To commemorate International Women’s Day 2018, we have compiled a selection of works from our collection, featuring some influential women artists and historical figures to celebrate the strength and diversity of womankind:
Italian Women in Church, Susan Isabel Dacre © Manchester City Galleries
Currently on display in Gallery 10
Carte-de-visite photograph (1870-80)
Montagna Mia (1923) Annie Louisa Swynnerton A.R.A. © Manchester City Galleries
C. Pankhurst mounted photograph © Manchester City Galleries
Photograph of Annie Kenny © Manchester City Galleries
Women's Work: On the Railways, Engine and Carriage Cleaners (1918) Archibald Standish Hartrick ©Manchester City Galleries
The Student (1903) Gwen John © Manchester City Galleries
Currently on display on the Balcony Gallery 1st floor
The Arrest of a Suffragette in Oxford Road © Manchester City Galleries
Standing Nude (1920) Ethel Walker © the Artist’s Estate. All Rights Reserved 2015/ Bridgeman Images
Bank Holiday (1923) Laura Knight ©Manchester City Galleries
A Girl (Bertha Edgar) Susan Isabel Dacre © Manchester City Galleries
Making Aircraft: Acetylene Welder (1917) Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson © Manchester City Galleries
Me in Sea (1984) Gwen Hardie © Gwen Hardie
Carte-de-visite photograph, G Coles (photographer) © Manchester City Galleries
Teacher and Pupil, John Dawson Watson © Manchester City Galleries
Carte-de-visite photograph Disderi & Cie (photographer) © Manchester City Galleries
Annie Barnett (1917) Adolphe Valette © Manchester City Galleries
Assembling a Hawker Hurricane (1940-1947) Elsie Dalton Hewland © Manchester City Galleries
"Suffragist "Bomb" Throwers Sent to Prison" Newspaper Cutting © Manchester City Galleries
Coinciding with the centenary year of granting some women the right to vote, we are currently exhibiting a retrospective of Annie Swynnerton: Painting Light and Hope and upcoming Sonia Boyce.
Swynnerton was an influential female artist from Manchester; a passionate supporter of women’s right to vote, whose work highlights female strength and empowerment (currently on display in Gallery 1 until 6th January 2019).
Boyce is a feminist artist who collaborates with different groups to create live performances, her work features a broad range of drawing and collage, photography, film and wallpaper (this will be coming on display in Galleries 17 & 18 on 23rd March 2018).