GUERRILLA GIRLS, New York (art collective)
Museums cave in to radical feminists 2008
poster

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased with funds donated by Susan Jones and James McGrath, 2018
2018.127
© Guerrilla Girls
She Persists

Activism

‘Art has long been used as a vehicle for change. It is one of the few tools available to the disempowered and the marginalised to achieve visibility, or disseminate a critical message. For women, it has served as a loudhailer when the custodians of established power structures do not care to listen.’
Annika Aitken

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‘The Women’s suffrage movement in England was not just a momentous occasion in political history, it was also a turning point in the history of popular design, propaganda and dress.’
Dr Maria Quirk

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‘Designers are challenging and expanding contemporary jewellery practice to tell new stories and act as a medium of social and political critique.’
Myf Doughty

Are You Listening? The poster as a site for resistance

‘The work of The Guerrilla Girls today is unflinching in their critique of institutions of power. They continue to ask the big and difficult questions, that remain as relevant in 2020 as they were in 1985.’
Megan Patty

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‘The role of craftivism in society has the dual quality of intriguing people with its familiarity, and then challenging the viewer with its message’
Sigourney Jacks