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The Exchange, Princes Street, Penzance, Cornwall TR18 2NL
Open Monday – Saturday 10.00am – 5.00pm
Closed Sundays

Liberties, an exhibition of contemporary art reflecting on 40 years since the Sex Discrimination Act curated by Day + Gluckman

Works by over 20 women artists will reflect the changes in art practice within the context of sexual and gender equality since the introduction of the Sex Discrimination Act (1975) in the UK. Some artists confront issues that galvanised the change in law whilst others carved their own place in a complex and male dominated art world. From the radical movements of the 1960s and 70s, the politics of the 80s, the boom of lad culture in the 1990s to the current fourth wave of feminism, encouraged largely through and because of social media, all of the artists’ question equality and identity in very different ways.

The exhibition presents a snapshot of the evolving conversations that continue to contribute to the mapping of a woman’s place in British society. Body, femininity, sex, motherhood, economic and political status are explored through film, photography, sculpture, performance and painting.

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Forty Hall, Forty Hill, Enfield EN2 9HA

Open Tuesday – Friday, 11.00am – 5.00pm
Saturday, Sunday + Bank Holiday, 12 noon – 5.00pm
(from 1 November closing time 4.00pm)
Free entry

Touring exhibition curated by Liz Cooper, launched at the Pumphouse Gallery, London in 2015, and has since been seen at the Crafts Study Centre, Farnham, Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Bovey Tracey and R-Space Gallery, Lisburn with new works continuing to be added as the tour unfolds. At Forty Hall Freddie Robins presents her specially commissioned work, Someone else’s dream.

The exhibition principally explores damage and repair through the processes and gestures of textile mending. Using stitch and other media in a range of scales and materials, the artists examine themes of disease and medicine, healing and restoration as applied to landscapes, bodies, minds and objects.

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