Name/TitleEvery Woman, Laura
MakerPhillips, Ciara
Maker RoleArtist
Edition1/2
Date Made2015
Period2010s
Medium and MaterialsPrinted on Somerset Satin with System 3 acrylic ink and screenprinting medium
Place MadeScotland, Glasgow
Place NotesGlasgow Print Studio
TechniqueScreenprint
MeasurementsH: 119 x W: 76 cm
Subject and Association KeywordsArt & design
Subject and Association KeywordsFemale friendship, sisterhood
Subject and Association DescriptionNotes from the artist:
Every Woman, Laura is part of an ongoing series of photographic screenprints that depict female friends in their places of work. The person photographed here is Laura Spring, a textile designer based in Glasgow. I first photographed her in 2010 in the Mackintosh Building at the Glasgow School of Art - where we were both educated. She features in two works for that time titled Printing Textiles, Laura (2011) and Laura, East Stairwell (2011). In 2015 I asked her if I could rephotograph her for a new series of portraits - this time in her studio and 'at work'. These images foreground moments of reflective creative work.
Two other portraits in the series Emily Reading (2015) and Corin Looking (2015) are similarly ambiguous as sites of work, and they depict moments when the subject is focussed on something that we don't have access to - looking out a window, looking at a computer screen, looking through a camera.
Every Woman, Laura is overlaid with the text 'Every Woman a Signal Tower'. This phrase is adapted from a title that has its origins in naval history - The Homograph, Or Every Man a Signal Tower - a signalling system devised by Lieut. James Spratt in 1808. I've used it in many different contexts as a kind of assertion and rallying cry to women to 'signal' out into the world.
Named CollectionGlasgow Women's Library
Object TypePrint
Object numberGWL-2017-81
Copyright LicenceAll rights reserved