Name/TitleCatalogue: The Subversive Stitch
MakerCornerhouse and the Whitworth Art Gallery
About this objectExhibition catalogue titled 'The Subversive Stitch', produced to accompany 'Embroidery in Women's Lives, 1300-1900' (27th May to 29th August 1988, Whitworth Art Gallery) and 'Women and Textiles Today' (27th May - 17th July 1988, cornerhouse), commissioned by these Manchester venues. Includes a foreword by Rozsika Parker, author of 'The Subversive Stitch: Embroidery and the Making of the Feminine' (1984).
Medium and MaterialsOrganic, paper
MeasurementsH: 297 x W: 296 mm
Date Made1988
Place MadeEngland, Manchester
PublisherCornerhouse and the Whitworth Art Gallery
Publication Date1988
Publication PlaceEngland, Manchester
Subject and Association Descriptionhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rozsika_Parker:
Rozsika Parker (27 December 1945 – 5 November 2010) was a British psychotherapist, art historian and writer and a feminist. Parker was born in London and spent her early years in Oxford, studying at Wychwood School. Between the years 1966–1969, Parker studied for a degree in the history of European art at the Courtauld Institute in London. In 1972, she joined the feminist magazine Spare Rib. She and Griselda Pollock then went on to found a feminist group, The Feminist Art History Collective. In the 1980s, Parker had two children with the Jungian analyst Andrew Samuels, a boy and a girl. Parker died in 2010 at age 64 of cancer. In 2013, the Rozsika Parker Essay Prize was established by the British Journal of Psychotherapy. Parker's contention that embroidery was a way to educate women and a weapon for resistance helped develop computational fiber arts as Anastasia Salter notes in her essay, Re:traced Threads: Generating Feminist Textile Art with Tracery.
Named CollectionGlasgow Women's Library
Object TypeBooklet
ISBN/ISSN0 903261 24 3
Object numberGWL-2016-123
Copyright LicenceAll rights reserved