Locating Sylvia Pankhurst

Joan has been working with artist Andrea Artz who has folded key photographs of Sylvia Pankhurst as part of Joan’s film-in-progress. Joan is also working with filmmaker Laurie Hill  to visualise some of the archive material from the Sylvia Pankhurst collection held at the IISH in Amsterdam and the Women’s Library at the LSE, London.

Visualising Suffragette Prison Experience through the work of Sylvia Pankhurst.
As part of the commemoration of the Representation of the Peoples Act of 1918 Joan presented a paper Visualising Suffragette Prison Experience through the work of Sylvia Pankhurst at Art and Suffrage, a symposium at London School of Economics. The Women's Library where her project on Sylvia Pankhurst began. The collection is now housed at LSE and they hold many artefacts and sound recordings on which Joan's film is based.
 

Ashworth attended Thinkers of our Time at the British Academy, London. The event discussed Sylvia's creative approach to her campaigns and the contemporary resonances of her work.
 

Ashworth’s film How Mermaids Breed was shortlisted for the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Anniversary Research in Film Awards for her project How Mermaids Breed. The awards are “designed to recognise the creative and innovative work being undertaken at the interface between research and film by world-leading researchers, practitioners and filmmakers in the UK arts and humanities research community”. The winners will be announced on Thursday 12th November at a special Awards Ceremony at the BFI Southbank. To mark the shortlisting, Ashworth has put together clips from the making of How Mermaids Breed cut to a music track made for the film.
 

Ashworth made a presentation of her work on Sylvia Pankhurst to the Faraday Ward Labour Party, Southwark to celebrate International Women’s Day and to explore how some of the suffragists campaigning methods could be adapted for today.
 

Ashworth discussed prison uniform arrows, rubber tubing and cells in her paper Suffragette Prison Experience: accessing archive texts, artefacts and objects and representing and re-enacting through film and animation, at the Women’s History Network Conference 2016, Women’s Material Cultures/Women’s Material Environments, Leeds Trinity University, Leeds UK. www.leedstrinity.ac.uk/events/humanities/womens-history-network-annual-conference-2016

 

Ashworth’s research using film and animation has been shortlisted for the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Anniversary Research in Film Awards for her project How Mermaids Breed. The awards are “designed to recognise the creative and innovative work being undertaken at the interface between research and film by world-leading researchers, practitioners and filmmakers in the UK arts and humanities research community”. The winners will be announced on Thursday 12th November at a special Awards Ceremony at the BFI Southbank. To mark the shortlisting, Ashworth has put together clips from the making of How Mermaids Breed cut to a music track made for the film: vimeo.com/142172205

 

Sylvia Pankhurst documentary project 2015

Ashworth gave a paper Unfreezing Sylvia Pankhurst at the Women’s History Network Conference: Female Agency, Activism and organisation, September 2015. @AgencyFemale

And a paper Interrogating the Paintings and Texts of Sylvia Pankhurst Using Animation at the Society of Animation Studies Conference, Canterbury in July 2015, sasbeyondtheframe.com @sas2015beyond

 

Joan Ashworth will be participating in the Sylvia Pankhurst Scholars’ Morning, Tate Britain, Monday 10 March 2014

This Scholars’ Morning, to coincide with the Sylvia Pankhurst display at Tate Britain, will gather together scholars, artists and activists to celebrate Sylvia Pankhurst’s work as artist and campaigner. The morning will be used to explore current debates about the relationship between art and politics. The event has been programmed by the Emily Davison Lodge with Tate Britain