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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 10h

Dog Sees the Spirits, 1960 by artist and printmaker of Inuit heritage Kenojuak Ashevak #WomensArt

Print featuring a black stylised dog looking up to purple animal ghost-like creatures which float above it

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Kaz @breakbeatreads.bsky.social · 10h

I recently read Reframing Women Printmakers and can only describe it as essential reading, wish I’d had something like that as an undergrad

womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 5d

GREAT GIFTS 🧡🎄🎁❣️
As a series or individually...
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3 womensart books on your favourite artists,
On textiles, painting & printmaking... 🧡🎄🎁❣️
Via here or your usual bookstore! www.waterstones.com/book/reframi...

Three individual book covers with different images and colours

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 10h

Thank you :)

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 10h

Unite (First State), 1969 (screenprint) by artist Barbara Jones-Hogu, a member of the Organization of Black American Culture (OBAC) and co-fouder of the artists' collective AfriCOBRA #womensart #BlackHistoryMonth US

Print showing the upper half of a group of Black activists with fists raised against a backdrop of diagonal text with the repeated word 'Unite'

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 5d

GREAT GIFTS 🧡🎄🎁❣️
As a series or individually...
YOUR choice!!
3 womensart books on your favourite artists,
On textiles, painting & printmaking... 🧡🎄🎁❣️
Via here or your usual bookstore! www.waterstones.com/book/reframi...

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 15h

Artemesia Gentileschi,
Judith Beheading Holofernes, 1620 #womensart

Painting featuring two white women in the act of beheading a white man with a sword as he lies in his bed

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 15h

Alexandra Drenth, Amsterdam based textile artist and designer specializing in hand embroideries and collage techniques #womensart

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 15h

Ukrainian-born French painter, textile/stage set designer Sonia Delaunay, fashion designs (c.1924) #womensart

Three stylised painted female figures in dresses with bold angular designs in blues, black, white and peach

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 15h

Indigenous artist Emily Kam Kngwarray is the first Australian artist to have a solo exhibition at London's Tate Modern. Featuring over 80 of her batiks and large paintings, capturing her ancestral land, the exhibition runs until January 2026 #WomensArt

Photo of a gallery space with large suspended and wall mounted artworks, the walls are white and the floor brown, two women view the art

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

Roxana Halls,
Laughing While Conducting - Fan, 2022,
contemporary UK painter #WomensArt

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

English ceramics designer Clarice Cliff, her Art Deco Diamonds Conical Pattern Tea set, 1930 #womensart

Photo of an angular shaped tea set with two cups and saucers, a teapot, a plate, a sugar bowl and a milk jug, all decorated with painted angular shapes in orange, black, blue and yellow

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

Girl in the East Wind with Ravens Passing the Moon, 1893 by Glasgow School artist Frances MacDonald #WomensArt

Painting of a stylised white woman in a pale green dress standing facing left in front of a full moon as five or more ravens fly past to the left against a dark sky

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

Yoko Ono, Mended (tea) Cups (2015) on harrowing world events, healing and peace #WomensArt

Photo of a mended white cup on three white saucers with four white saucers to the right partly shown, each saucer has writing on it with names of places and dates, all against a white background

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

Gabriele Münter (1877-1962), German Expressionist painter who was at the forefront of the Munich avant-garde in the early 20th century #WomensArt

Painting of a sunrise or sunset over an island in silhouette on a calm sea under a dramatic gold, red and purple sky, viewed from a green shore

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

Elin Thomas, UK textile artist who uses embroidery/crochet to create unique work resembling petri dishes and bacteria spores #womensart

Photo looking down on four petri dishes, neatly arranged, with what resembles bacteria and mould growing inside created with crochet and embroidery

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

My City #2 , 2008 by by Lebanese artist Zena Assi #womensart

Artwork of a busy cityscape with many buildings close together, filling the picture plane

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

'Moonlight Murmuration' by artist Kerrie Ann Gardner, painting on stone #WomensArt #FullMoon #October

Oval shaped stone with a painting of a landscape with a lake and a hill over which many birds fly under a full moon

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 2d

US photographer Dorothea Lange documented female shipyard workers- Kaiser shipyard, California, WW2, 1943 #womensart

#BlackHistoryMonth

Monochrome photograph of a young Black women worker, in overalls and with a welder's visor lifted up on her head, sitting in sunlight against a wall

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 2d

The artwork displayed by the band #Coldplay on their 2014 album 'Ghost Stories' was created by UK based artist printmaker Mila Furstova, one of many contemporary artists featured in the new WA book 'Reframing Women Printmakers' #WomensArt