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Missing Photographs

A few of my women are still missing pictures as they have not yet been completed by the photography students. I will add these in at a later date so that the pictures are available.

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Significant Woman Referencing sheet

Referencing.

Using the referencing sheet to put in all the details from the sites we had used. This took the most amount of time during the project as it was very time consuming!

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Creative Industries Powerpoint

Creative Industries Powerpoint!

The Final stage of the women's day projects included taking all the information we had gathered and putting it together on the point. This also included adding the pictures that had been edited by the photography students.

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Lisa McGee

Lisa McGee​

Screenwriter (1979/80-present)​

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Lisa McGee is a Northern Irish playwright and screenwriter. McGee is the creator and writer of Derry Girls, a comedy series that began airing on Channel 4 in the UK in January 2018. In 2018, she was listed as one of BBC's 100 Women.  Her plays include Jump, The Heights, Nineteen Ninety Two, and Girls and Dolls, for which she won the Stewart Parker Trust New Playwright Bursary 2007. ​

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JK Rowling

JK Rowling​

Writer (1965-present)​

​J. K. Rowling, is a British author and philanthropist. She is best known for writing the Harry Potter fantasy series, which has won multiple awards and sold more than 500 million copies, becoming the best-selling book series in history. Rowling has lived a "rags to riches" life in which she progressed from living on benefits to being named the world's first billionaire author by Forbes. For her outstanding contribution to the literary world, she has been conferred with the prestigious Legion d'honneur by French government and Order of the British Empire. Rowling recently come under fire for tweeting a message of support for Maya Forstater, a researcher who lost her job at a think tank for stating that people cannot change their biological sex.​

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Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou​

Poet (1928-2014)​

​Maya Angelou was an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and is credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning over 50 years. Angelou is best known for her series of seven autobiographies, which focus on her childhood and early adult experiences. The first, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), tells of her life up to the age of 17 and brought her international recognition and acclaim. It became an instant bestseller and stayed on the New York Times paperback bestseller list for the next two years. In 1993 Angelou recited her poem, "On the Pulse of Morning," for President Bill Clinton's inauguration. She became the first African American poet and first female poet to participate in a recitation for a U.S. president's inauguration. ​ ​

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Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie​

Writer (1890-1976)​

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Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE was an English writer known for her sixty-six detective novels and fourteen short story collections. She is credited for writing the world’s longest running play ‘The Mousetrap.’ Her books have been translated into 103 different languages, and her works rank third after the works of William Shakespeare and the Bible, as the world’s most widely published books. Her novel ‘And Then There Were None’ deserves special mention as her best-selling novel. Around 100 million copies of the novel have been sold till now. In 1955, she was given the Edgar Award by the MWA for Best Play. Agatha Christie was a renowned mystery author not only in Europe, but all over the world. Because of her success in this category, she was named the “Queen of Crime.”

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Aretha Franklin

Aretha Franklin​

Musicain (1942-2018)​

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Aretha Franklin was an American singer, songwriter, and civil rights activist. Over 75 million copies of her albums have been sold. In 2005 Franklin received the Presidential Medal of Freedom for revolutionizing music and “helping to shape our Nation’s artistic and cultural heritage.” She is widely considered today the “Queen of Soul.” Although the song “Respect” wasn’t  written by Franklin it was adopted as a political protest anthem by both the civil rights movement and the feminist movement and was an electrifying call to action. “I just lost my song,” Otis Redding famously said after hearing Franklin’s feminist cover.  In 1987, Franklin became the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.​

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Nina Simone

Nina Simone​

Musician (1933-2003)​

​Nina Simone was  an American singer who created urgent emotional intensity by singing songs of love, protest, and Black empowerment in a dramatic style, with a rough-edged voice. She rocked the blues and jazz music charts throughout her career. Over the 1960s, she became one of the most popular female music and fashion icons. Apart from creating music, she also devoted her time to the ‘Civil Rights Movement.’ Her personal experiences with racism had her raising her voice against such atrocities. She extensively protested the Birmingham Church bombing that took the lives of four young black girls. Her social activism also infiltrated her music, and she wrote many songs about racial injustice.  Hip-Hop especially has taken a keen liking to Nina Simone’s often provocative lyrics. She is most known for her songs Sinnerman, I Put a Spell on You and I Loves You, Porgy.​

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Coco Chanel

Coco Chanel​

Fashion Designer (1883-1971)​

​Coco Chanel was a French fashion designer and businesswoman. The founder and namesake of the Chanel brand. Chanel created timeless classics and set a high benchmark for the fashion designers to come. She was instrumental in breaking the stereotype and liberating women from the stifling ‘corseted silhouette’ and making the sporty casual chic look not only acceptable but also trendy and very fashionable. Chanel created timeless classics and set a high benchmark for the fashion designers to come .Chanel is the only fashion designer who features on Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century.​

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Yayoi Kusama​

Yayoi Kusama​

Artist (1929-present)​

​Yayoi Kusama is a Japanese contemporary artist who works primarily in sculpture and installation. Her work is based in conceptual art and shows some attributes of feminism, minimalism, surrealism, Art Brut and more. She has been acknowledged as one of the most important living artists to come out of Japan. In October 2006, Kusama became the first Japanese woman to receive the Praemium Imperiale, one of Japan's highest honours for internationally recognized artists. Kusama's work has performed strongly at auction: top prices for her work are for paintings from the late 1950s and early 1960s. As of 2012, her work has the highest turnover of any living woman artist. Bedatri D. Choudhury has described how Kusama's lack of feeling in control throughout her life made her, either consciously or subconsciously, want to control how others perceive time and space when entering her exhibits.​

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Barbara Kruger

Barbara Kruger ​

Conceptual artist (1945-present)​

​Barbara Kruger is an American conceptual artist and collagist.  Addressing issues of language and sign, Kruger has often been grouped with such feminist postmodern artists. In particular, she uses the techniques of mass communication and advertising to explore gender and identity.  Most of her work deals with provocative topics like feminism, consumerism, and individual autonomy and desire, frequently appropriating images from mainstream magazines and using her bold phrases to frame them in a new context. Her poster for the 1989 Women's March on Washington in support of legal abortion included a woman's face bisected into positive and negative photographic reproductions, accompanied by the text "Your body is a battleground.” A year later, Kruger used this slogan in a billboard commissioned by the Wexner Center for the Arts. ​

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Cindy Sherman

Cindy Sherman​

Photographer (1954-present)​

​Cindy Sherman is an American artist whose work consists primarily of photographic self-portraits, depicting herself in many different contexts and as various imagined characters. Sherman's work is often linked to feminism, since her photos call attention to the objectification of women in the media. Sherman's 1981 series Centerfolds contains pseudo-voyeuristic images of young women. Many scholars emphasize the relationship Cindy Sherman's work has with the concept of the gaze. Sherman herself has identified an uncertainty toward the Untitled series' relationship with the male gaze. Sherman's work is often credited as a major influence for contemporary portrait.​

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Hannah Hoch

Hannah Hoch​

Artist (1889-1978)​

​Hannah Hoch was a German artist who was best known for her work of the Weimar period, when she was one of the originators of photomontage. Höch's work was intended to dismantle the fable and dichotomy that existed in the concept of the "New Woman" an energetic, professional, and androgynous woman, who is ready to take her place as man's equal. Her interest in the topic was in how the dichotomy was structured, as well as in who structures social roles. Many of her pieces sardonically critiqued the mass culture beauty industry of the time, then gaining significant momentum in mass media through the rise of fashion and advertising photography. Many of her political works from the Dada period equated women's liberation with social and political revolution. Höch also made strong statements on racial discrimination.​

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Martha Rosler

Martha Rosler​

Artist (1943-present)​

​Martha Rosler is an American artist who works in photography,  photo text, video, installation, sculpture, and performance. Rosler's work is centred on everyday life and the public sphere, often with an eye to women's experience. Recurrent concerns are the media and war, as well as architecture and the built environment, from housing and homelessness to places of passage and systems of transport. Rosler's work and writing have been widely influential. Her media of choice have included photomontage and photo-text, as well as video, sculpture, and installation. Rosler has lectured extensively, nationally and internationally. She taught photography and media, as well as photo and video history and critical studies, at Rutgers University, in new Brunswick, New Jersey, where she was a professor for thirty years, attaining the rank of Professor II.​

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Virginia Wolf

Virginia Wolf ​

Writer (1882-1941)​

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Adeline Virginia Woolf was an English writer, considered one of the most important modernist 20th century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device. She is known for her works like ‘To the Lighthouse,’ ‘Mrs. Dalloway,’ ‘Orlando’. An important figure in the ‘Victorian Literary Society,’ as well as an influential figure in the Bloomsbury group of intellectuals, Woolf was an innovator of English literature who used experimental language. Her works are considered unique as they go deep into the psychology of a character, portraying the way her character thinks. Her work ‘To the Lighthouse’ was ranked number 15 by the ‘Modern Library’ in 1998, on its list of ‘100 best English language novels of the 20th century.’ The ‘TIME’ magazine also chose it as one of the best English language novels published between 1923 and 2005

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Carolee Schneemann​

Carolee Schneemann​

Visual Experimental artist (1939-present)​

​Carolee Sheemann was an American visual experiment artist, known for her multimedia works on the body, narrative, sexuality and gender. Originally a painter in the Abstract Expressionist tradition, Schneeman was uninterested in the masculine heroism of New York painters of the time and turned to performance-based work, primarily characterized by research into visual traditions, taboos, and the body of the individual in relation to social bodies. Though she was noted for being a feminist figure, her works explore issues in art and rely heavily on her broad knowledge of art history. Unlike much other feminist art, Schneemann's revolves around sexual expression and liberation, rather than referring to victimization or repression of women. In Schneemann's earlier work, she is seen as addressing issues of patriarchal hierarchies in the 1950s American gallery space. ​

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