Sylvia Pankhurst and the Art of Suffrage
Excerpted from Sylvia Pankhurst and the Art of Suffrage by Hester Reeve in Apollo Magazine.
“Also produced during this time were objects only available within the union [Women’s Suffrage Political Union – WSPU founded by Sylvia’s mother Emma Pankhurst in 1903)], designed not to promote but to cohere the movement. The ‘Holloway brooch’, the suffragette equivalent of a medal of honour, was awarded to suffragettes who had undergone hunger strike in prison. The Portcullis symbol of Parliament is rendered in silver, overlaid with a broad arrow enamelled in the suffragette colours of purple, white and green. here we see Pankhurst’s creative skill used to celebrate and inspire, art and politics merged together. ”
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The writer of this article, Hester Reeve, founded The Emily Davison Lodge, along with Olivia Pender. This conceptual institution brought the Sylvia Pankhurst display to Tate Britain in 2013-14, as a way to bring national attention to the significant contribution of Sylvia Pankhurst to British art history.
~ by artpoped on March 10, 2018.
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