Welcome to A Woman’s Place Projects

A catalyst and umbrella for cultural projects and advocacy where equality

provides the contextual backbone

To find out more about our organisation, read our mission statement here.

Our commitment to Black Lives Matter

To avoid any confusion please note that we, and the projects that we undertake, are not aligned to, affiliated with or representing the campaign group WomansPlaceUK.

2024

A Woman’s Place Projects  is now closed.

2023 marked our last projects as A Woman’s Place Projects. Due to a combination of work, family commitments and a challenging funding environment we  have taken the decision to wind down this year. It has been an amazing journey. We have worked with extraordinary artists and wonderful partners and positively impacted the profile of work by women, and women’s stories. There is much still to do, and in our respective jobs we will continue to take forward our commitment to equity, equality and inclusion through creativity.

Thank you to everyone who has come with us on this adventure.

2023 

We are delighted to be supporting:

August 2023 –  ProjectOurs, a collective of women and gender minority filmmakers based in Brighton, for their residency at Phoenix Art Space as part of Collective Conversations this summer.

30 September – 19 November 2023 – Are You a Woman in Authority? ‘at Phoenix Art Space curated by Broken Grey Wires  an exhibition of work by artists who explore empowerment, gender, and community in their practice. Are You A Woman in Authority? communicates the powerful rhetoric behind key social issues: mental illness, class struggles, race, queerness and feminist discourse, and how these intersect. It brings together established, critically acclaimed artists and provides a platform for emerging artists.

Artists: Janine Antoni – Bobby Baker  – Lizz Brady – kevanté ac cash – Lynn Hershman Leeson  – Permindar Kaur – Sarah Lucas – Sarah Maple  – Tracey Moffatt – Jade Montserrat – Zanele Muholi – Anya Paintsil – Charlotte Prodger – Martha Rosler – Carol Sommer

For future conversations….

Before lockdown we undertook a period of research for a new project – Our Precarious State – to explore women’s experiences of living precariously, affected by issues that include gender & sexuality, race, neurodiversity & mental health, housing, education, borders & language barriers, underpinned and exacerbated by the environmental crisis.

Conversations, research and thinking in the form of online discussion groups and email exchanges took place, and funding applications were made…….and then the global pandemic happened and life turned upside down . Although the issues feel every more pertinent we won’t be able to take this forward as A Woman’s Place Projects now, however if you are interested in picking up the thread please do get in touch with Lucy – lucy@lucyday.co.uk

Now available online – the publication for our 2016 – 2018 programme!

Print copies of the publication for our 2016 – 2018 programme, which culminated in six new site-specific commissions at National Trust’s Knole by artists Lubaina Himid, CJ Mahony, Emily Speed, Alice May Williams and Melanie Wilson plus an online work by Lindsay Seers, have been posted out far and wide.

If you would like to download a PDF version please click here. 

2018 – HIGHLIGHTS

A Woman’s Place Knole 17 MAY – 4 NOVEMBER 2018

Six contemporary art commissions highlighted the progression towards equality through the stories of women who have contributed to the spirit & history of Knole.

Curated by Lucy Day & Eliza Gluckman

Knole House

Six commissions on site at National Trust’s Knole by Lubaina Himid, CJ Mahony, Emily Speed, Alice May Williams & Melanie Wilson, and an online work by Lindsay Seers. Each artist responded, through different media – sculpture, sound, film, interventions and a website, with commissioned works that encompassed love, betrayal, class, gender and inheritance.

A Woman’s Place at Knole shone a light on historical women’s voices, marking 100 years since the Representation of the People Act that gave some women the vote in the UK for the first time. This critical moment in history is no better illustrated than at Knole where the rules of inheritance impacted so significantly on the women who lived there.

A number of events took place throughout the 2018 season at Knole, including a performance devised and directed by Emily Speed. Performing the Toilette took place on 7 August 2018. You can see a short video of it here, filmed and edited by Alice May Williams. Performer Natalie Sharp.

For more information on the six artists and the commissions go to our Exhibitions page, or click on our Press Release on the Press page.

What was your highlight? For many more to choose from, and a recap of past and recent A Woman’s Place events, head straight over to our Events page to see what we got up to!

Project highlights

PARTNERS (Current and Past)