Name/TitlePrint: Untitled
About this objectFramed diptych of Untitled screenprints.
MakerBarclay, Claire
Maker RoleArtist
Date Made2012
Period2010s
Medium and MaterialsScreenprint (diptych)
Place MadeScotland, Glasgow
Inscription and MarksSigned by artist. Each prints editioned and signed by artist.
TechniqueScreenprint
MeasurementsL: 596 x W: 419 mm
Subject and Association Keywords21 Revolutions
Subject and Association KeywordsTemperance
Subject and Association Keywordswomen's suffrage, right to vote
Subject and Association DescriptionThe featured texts re-appropriate a slogan that was used by the Social Purity Movement, aligned to temperance and women’s suffrage groups in the late 1800’s/early 1900’s. Barclay found inspiration from the GWL archives in the collection’s Jus Suffragii magazines and Suffragette memorabilia.
“I am interested in their notion of a ‘blameless life’, when compared to the moral codes which underlie contemporary society, and the sense of hypocrisy and guilt which seems to pervade. The phrase suggests a romanticized ideal of an innate feminine innocence, symbolized by the white flower, sometimes worn by suffragettes. Comparisons between feminine virtue and the purity of nature is outdated and sometimes complacent, but these groups also left a legacy of their struggle for progressive moral and social change which we still find inspiring.”
Named CollectionGlasgow Women's Library
Object TypePrint
Object numberGWL-2015-49-3
Copyright LicenceAll rights reserved