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Exhibition at the Houses Of Parliament London

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Exhibition at the Houses Of Parliament London

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What was the Voice & Vote exhibition?

Throughout the exhibition, rare and previously unseen historic objects, pictures and archives from the Parliamentary collections and elsewhere were on show. Together with immersive and interactive technologies, the exhibition told the story of women in Parliament, the campaigning, the protests and the achievements. It also examined where we are today and how you can make change happen.

Immersive spaces

The exhibition gave visitors the experience of women's place in Parliament by recreating lost historical spaces of the Palace of Westminster.

The Ventilator

200 years ago, this loft space above the House of Commons Chamber was where women watched and listened to Parliamentary debates. Women were banned from the public galleries. Those who were politically engaged and wanted to watch discussions of issues they were campaigning for, such as the abolition of the slave trade, would make their way to this space to watch and listen.

The Cage

After the 1834 fire which destroyed the old Palace of Westminster, the new House of Commons included a Ladies' Gallery which allowed women to view the Chamber from high up above the Speaker's Chair. The gallery was closed off by brass grilles, deliberately placed there to stop MPs seeing the women. The grilles restricted women's view and the Ladies' Gallery was hot, stuffy and soon nicknamed "The Cage".

The Tomb

From 1918, women could stand for Parliament for the first time. An office called the Lady Members' Room was provided but it was poorly furnished and became increasingly overcrowded as more women were elected as MPs. They had to share the space, which became known as "The Tomb" despite their differing politics. Once the few desks provided were all taken, women MPs had to sit on the floor to do their paperwork and hold meetings in corridors.

The Chamber

The final part of the exhibition will be the Chamber, exploring the experience and work of women MPs and members of the House of Lords today. Women have now occupied the highest positions in Parliament, including Betty Boothroyd, the first, and only (so far) woman Speaker and Baroness Hayman, the first Lord Speaker in the House of Lords.

Relive the exhibition

If you missed the Voice and Vote exhibition you can take a virtual tour with Rebecca and Marie in this UK Parliament Facebook live video.

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Voice & Vote: Women's Place in Parliament exhibition

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Throughout the exhibition, rare and previously unseen historic objects, pictures and archives from the Parliamentary collections and elsewhere were on show. Together with immersive and interactive technologies, the exhibition told the story of women in Parliament, the campaigning, the protests and the achievements. It also examined where we are today and how you can make change happen.

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Exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery London

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Exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery London

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A special display Votes for Women (running until 3 June 2018) will explore the hard-fought campaign for the vote through portraits of the key participants, including paintings of Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett and Dame Christabel Pankhurst, and surveillance photographs of Suffragettes, issued to the National Portrait Gallery by Scotland Yard in 1914.

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Chanel Moodboard

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Inspiration Board

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What inspires me...

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Advert came out in 2016 after Megan trainer won a grammys award

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Feedback:
It was really interesting to hear what others had done their review on, a really diverse bunch we all are!
I feel that what I did was more of an account what was inside the book. I did on my blog here mention what I thought of the book I reviewed. Maybe I had crossed wires or did not quite understand what I was doing? One to look at further I think! I need to look at more reviews, how and what content to include really.
For my first attempt, I feel it was alright but I feel I missed the point of doing a review!hmmmm. Can only get better I guess by starting at the bottom!
It's in my post 26th September if you want to visit it!
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Things Going Around My Head to Look At

Create a mood board...... I was not that sure what to do with this regarding what inspires and or influences me. I like a lot of things but those two words were just not sitting well with me.
After a conversation with our amazing tutor, I am now clearer in my mind what I need to do.
It can relate to my current project, that's great!! So that's what I I will do! More on this later when I have done it!
UPDATE:
I went with what I liked! Created a bibliography of where I looked too.
This is my mood board and then a little information..

( ooops my naff photo skills chopped off the word collage on the left)

Lines and marks with interesting fluid shapes opposite to geometric abstraction. A kind of washed out look making every part of the image interesting to look at.

I really love the way this advert looks. The different mediums used to put the design together. Every part of this is so interesting to look at, from the check shirt/top to where all the butterflies are situated. Esdar Maren interests me with her use of collage mixed with the fantasy element.

Love how versatile and fun collage is. Artists like Kurt Schwitters and Henri Matisse's designs make collage fascinating.

Yayoi Kusama's designs are so much fun, dots and more dots! Clean lines of dots all different sizes. With a cleverly manipulated lines of dots, pictures emerge. The contrast of lines and dots looks great together.

Lines, mark making, different thicknesses of lines and colours make abstract exciting. Wassily Kandinsky had a neurological condition called synaesthesia where the stimulation of a sense like hearing or touch leads to involuntarily to triggering of another sense like sight or taste. He expressed an interest in visualising music in his paintings.

Yayoi Kusama | Pumpkin (1998) | Artsy. Retrieved October 9, 2018, from https://www.artsy.net/artwork/yayoi-kusama-pumpkin-38

, exhibit- e.com. Paintings - Artworks - Helen Frankenthaler Foundation. Retrieved October 9, 2018, from http://www.frankenthalerfoundation.org/artworks/paintings

Ormiston, R. (2018). 50 Art Movements You Should Know (p. 36,37,72,73,90). Prestel.

I found the mood board a fun task to do and really enjoyed it.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Names that crop up to look at, to be more informed....

Interesting to read...... (its in above link)

I think moving forward from my last post I now understand why I keep thinking I have been under a rock for the last 50 (lol not that old) years. I think its due to my background where I grew up and around the forces in Germany, then married a soldier and lived in Germany. It's almost like being institutionalised in a kind of bubble. I have grown up knowing that wives of soldiers are baggage, second best and are there because men want a wife. Almost a form of brainwashing! That's how I was brought up and then as an adult accepted the same as I married a soldier! So I feel feminist issues I cannot relate somehow too as they are not directly affecting me so I guess I don't need to know about them. Reading this you may think WHAT!? But if I know no different how do things affect me? Not only that if I am honest I have never ever had a conversation where the need to talk about rights or women's rights has come up. This is what I think, I could be wrong? I may be, right about what going on in my head?
So now is the time of change! I need to obviously do something about this! I need to educate myself, from the start as I literally know nothing.
I will search the internet to see if there are some 'simple' easy understanding and easy absorbing visual things on youtube as I feel they would be best for me to understand.
This is clear.... from the point of view from a feminist.

I listened to this from Emma Watson and thought it really powerful, and it really opened my eyes.

Here is what Emma Watson was talking about....

Maybe update this later.... (UPDATED!)
For next week...
Ok given a task - Visual Analysis
Objects, Images, Words and Meaning
We see someone walk by wearing dark sunglasses....
What reasons might they be wearing sunglasses?

1. Take or find a photograph of an object you think represents an aspect of someone's identity or character.
2. Find an advert (still or moving image) that you think has interesting imagery which we can analyse and discuss together.
TASK: For next weeks session (8/10). 1. I really found this a difficult task to do as I struggle with understanding my own identity. I will attempt to relate this question to someone I know. I decided to choose a picture of a caravan, for my mum. The caravan symbolizes the fact that she travels around or rather has travelled around all her life. A little like a gypsy.

2. Thinking about this I found a few images that I found interesting. I chose these polar bears covered in graffiti as the message they were trying to get over would strike a chord with everyone as everyone can relate to it in one way or another.
The simple message being don't destroy the wildlife for future generations.

This image is interesting as its basically saying females will have to work twice as hard as males to do the same job. Showing the inequality between male and females doing the same employment role.

Often we are aware of how people are dressed before we get to know them...
A few questions to answer:

I feel for example in the Victorian times dress etiquette was clear and understood. I found a website that explains this: What can we tell about a person from their clothes, hair make-up?
First impressions count as for example a scruffy, unshaven, smelly person would be seen as poor or/and living on the streets. The opposite end of this would be an affluent person, well-kept nails and hair etc, smart maybe designer clothes.
Smartly dressed or wearing a suit with hair brushed and make-up, it used to be people working in offices but I think its hard to tell these days as people I feel generally dress smartly.
They could be dressed smartly due to going out too, or a casual smart appearance.
If the building or temperature outside is warm and some people are walking around with cardigans, jackets, coats hats and scarves it may mean they are feeling under the weather or just cold. They may have a medical condition which causes them to feel the cold all the time.
Appearance is interesting as take someone that has tattoos, they may simply really like tattoos and or use the experience for a kind of self-help relating to a medical issue. Or they could be a member of a biker group like the traditional Harley Davidsons. The only way we would know this would be by their appearance, what they are wearing and how they generally look.

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Male timeline - Female timeline - What kind of situations limit or restrict what we wear and why?
When swimming we can only wear either a swimming costume/bikini or trunks/speedos as this is the pool etiquette. The history of swimwear is fascinating. Whilst I was searching I found a timeline that was men and another timeline that was for women. I thought this interesting in itself as I wondered why they were not done together?
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Temperature restricts what we wear, too hot wear less and in the cold, wear more.
Dress code limits what we wear. Wearing a uniform for work ie; a fireman, soldier, paramedic (public services) that type of situation. These limit what is worn as only what is necessary is worn. Even pupils in a school all wearing a school uniform, this limits them and makes them all conform to the same restriction. I believe this would be seen as creating a good public image for the school as all the pupils have the same dress code. However, having schooled my daughter in France there was no dress code within her school. Individuality is more important there as it helps children to discover who they are and their own identity.
Money plays a huge part in this as it determines whether or not a person can buy clothing. Money is the restriction, limiting how much you can spend on clothes, where you can buy them from and how often you can buy them.

Do you have any particular items of clothing which make you feel more confident or which you wear to bring you luck?
No, I see clothing as equal objects to wear, not one item has a different meaning to me.
I have read about people wearing 'lucky pants' or similar as they really believe that their clothing brings them luck in one way or another.
I thought that my 'lucky' socks could be these, Yayoi Kusama artist. For this exercise.

Have you ever been in a situation where you have worn something inappropriate?
I think situations like wearing daisy duke shorts and boob tube to a professional job environment would be highly inappropriate.

No, not really. Once whilst in Germany as a military wife attending a function in the Mess, I wore a long evening gown instead of a cocktail dress. Slight issue but it was fine and laughed about later, a mistake I never repeated as I checked at all future Mess events!
When might you wear something to disguise yourself or give out a false impression?
The first thing that comes to mind would be a fancy dress costume, to disguise yourself.
A false impression could be given if people wear gym wear/clothing, and never actually visit a gym. They wear the clothing because it is comfortable and the impression they are giving by wearing it would be that they regularly visit the gym.
Another example of disguising yourself to give a false impression to the extreme would be a person masquerading as a doctor. For people accepting what they see at face value.

I think I spend no more than 30 minutes but in reality, after asking family members I spend around 45 minutes, sometimes longer!
How much time and effort do you spend on your appearance? I should spend more time, I make sure my clothes are clean and ironed and that I am presentable. I make sure my hair is brushed and that I have good hygiene habits. Wearing a nice scent or perfume is important to me.

I tend to buy new clothes in a spontaneous manner, even if I don't need or require any. No, I am not influenced by fashion in the slightest. I think this is due to my body size rather than not being interested. Presently I feel I could not possibly wear mini skirts or low cut tops, even tight fitted clothing I would draw the line at! How often do you buy new clothes? Do you consider yourself to be influenced by the idea of what is fashionable? If not is there anything you would find impossible to wear?

Phew! A lot of research and work done there! But all of it was actually fun.

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3rd October 2018 - Feedback on book review

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Feedback: It was really interesting to hear what others had done their review on, a really diverse bunch we all are! I feel that what I did was more of an account what was inside the book. I did on my blog here mention what I thought of the book I reviewed.

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Book review