Visiting Women in Revolt! Art and Activism in the UK 1970 – 1990 at Tate Britain, a historical overview of women’s creative activism during 3 decades, took me back to my youth.
It’s shocking to be reminded of the legal status of women 50 or so years ago: we really were treated as second-class citizens. There is still room for progress but things have improved since the 1970s.
Humour and anger are visible in equal measure in the work on show.
Linder used collage for her views on the situations faced by many women…
Bobby Baker‘s An Edible Family in a Mobile Home from 1976 has been restaged for this show, once last winter and now from 8th March till 7th April on Tate’s South Lawn. Here is one of the original photos: the teenage boy made from Garibaldi biscuits in a chocolate cake bath.
More to talk about in my next post.