Ross pictured in her studio with her sculpture with one hand tied behind us, a composite collation of photographs and artworks from Feministo works, on panels laced together with cord. The images include a mannequin with the mirrored iron on an ironing board with accompanying text from The Hard Way Up, autobiography of Hannah Mitchell - Suffragette and Rebel, the artist with her daughter Alice and her mother-in-law Irene reflected in an iron with the text "My mother said 'I want your life to be different'", white shirts ironed flat and covered in white plaster, a quilt and other domestic items exhibited in different manifestations in the The Women's Postal Art Event series of exhibitions. Small artworks from the Womens Postal Art Event are attached to the bottom of the sculpture.
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Group Work: Contemporary Art and Feminism
British Art Network