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Exploratory experimental animation
• Cotton mill worker
• Prison sketch
• Skirt and shoes
• Books
Experiential activism
Cotton mill worker
This experiment uses animation to unfreeze Pankhurst painting of a Glasgow cotton mill worker and give her a voice. The voice here belongs to Elizabeth Dean, former suffragette, who was interviewed in 1978 on the 50th Anniversary of the Act that gave women the vote.
Women workers of England: Northern Painting tour.
Recording courtesy of BBC Archive.
Painting “Minding a fine pair of frames” by Sylvia Pankhurst, 1907, courtesy of Richard Pankhurst.