Map of Tate Britain with stickers marking location of paintings by women & text saying which have Wiki entries which refer to being a wife or role model.

I’m Not Looking for Mrs Barbara

A3 digital print

Commissioned as a multiple give away for Mining the Gap, a Public Programmes’ event mapping the histories of artists’ collectives from the 1970s, curated by Michèle Fuirer with Anna Murray and co-hosted with Althea Greenan, curator of the Women’s Art Library, Tate Britain, London 2017

Exhibited as part of Inside Job, Tate Modern 6 – 8 April 2018

Nb The original impetus for the use of stickers in these maps and other works was the sticker classification system used by the Feminist Library, one of the first sites of my search for Barbara. Introduced by librarian Wendy Davis it takes women and feminism as a starting point rather than a subset. I like stickers for their ease of use and recognisable purpose - a view not shared by an outgoing director of Tate Modern who described one of the examples of my use of them in You are Welcome, Tate Exchange as ‘tawdry’. I took comfort from the next director describing the multi-stickered installation as exactly what she wanted visitors to encounter in the gallery.

 
Map of Tate Modern with stickers marking where women artists who are also staff work.
 

 Appendix A.

Commissioned by the Inside Job Collective, for Inside Job: The First Tate Staff Bienniale and Other Stories

Published by Entropy Press Summer 2019 ISBN: 978-1-9998281-3-4