Name/TitlePrint: Not Just the Perfect Moments
About this objectDigital pigment fine art print on paper titled 'Not Just the Perfect Moments' by Kate Davis
MakerDavis, Kate
Maker RoleArtist
Date Made2012
Medium and MaterialsOrganic, paper
Place MadeScotland, Glasgow
Inscription and MarksPrints editioned and signed by artist
TechniqueDigital pigment print
MeasurementsL: 405 x W: 320 mm
Subject and Association Keywords21 Revolutions
Subject and Association Description“If we train ourselves to ‘see’ differently, visual markers of various rites of passage which are socially tabooed within the family album can be made: for example, divorce, illness and death; undervalued everyday events such as signing on for the dole, childcare, schooling, housework, visiting the doctor” (Jo Spence, Cultural Sniping, 1995)
In this work, as is the case with much of Davis’ practice, photography and drawing are brought into close relation, and both are questioned as techniques for representing, and caring for, the past. The British artist Jo Spence (1934-92), whose significant autobiographical text Putting Myself in the Picture is the focus of this print, often asked who owned images, and especially images of the body. Davis reinstates such questioning here by treating Spence’s publication as the subject, and Glasgow Women’s Library as the subject’s stage.
“What we need to do with our own pictures and with our own self image, if you like, is to shift the emphasis back to a point where we understand that everything we do as women has a validity – not just the perfect moments.” (Jo Spence, Spare Rib Reader, 1968)
Named CollectionGlasgow Women's Library
Object TypePrint
Object numberGWL-2015-49-5
Copyright LicenceAll rights reserved