21 Revolutions
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A Scarf for Glasgow Women’s Library: Exclusive ltd edition digital print on silk by Ruth Barker
To mark Glasgow Women’s Library’s 21st anniversary, the Library commissioned 21 women artists to create new work inspired by items and artefacts in our collections.
The immensely warm and welcoming embrace of the Library and its community is celebrated in Ruth Barker's scarves’ enveloping wrap.
Advice-giver: Exclusive ltd edition screenprint by Ciara Phillips
To mark Glasgow Women’s Library’s 21st anniversary, the Library commissioned 21 women artists to create new work inspired by items and artefacts in our collections.
Ciara Phillips's work for the Glasgow Women’s Library was made in response to items found in the library's poster archive.
Cheiron in Type: Exclusive ltd edition digital pigment fine art print by Lucy Skaer
To mark Glasgow Women’s Library’s 21st anniversary, the Library commissioned 21 women artists to create new work inspired by items and artefacts in our collections.
Lucy Skaer’s Cheiron in Type is a photograph of a damaged copy of ‘Cheiron’ by R.C. Trevelyan published by the Hogarth press and printed in 1927. The book is cast in to a block with melted down tin type.
Moneses Uniflora: Exclusive ltd edition etching and handmade artist’s book by Amanda Thomson
To mark Glasgow Women’s Library’s 21st anniversary, the Library commissioned 21 women artists to create new work inspired by items and artefacts in our collections.
Amanda Thomson's Moneses Uniflora consists of a print and a bookwork. The title refers to the Latin name for the one-flowered wintergreen, a rare plant that was the favourite flower of Mary McCallum Webster, a self-taught botanist who died in 1986.
Timepiece: Exclusive ltd edition digital pigment fine art print by Elspeth Lamb
To mark Glasgow Women’s Library’s 21st anniversary, the Library commissioned 21 women artists to create new work inspired by items and artefacts in our collections.
The object that sparked off the research for Elspeth Lamb’s banner and print edition Timepiece was the small Victorian fob watch in GWL’s suffragette collection.
21 Revolutions postcards
To mark Glasgow Women’s Library’s 21st anniversary, the Library commissioned 21 women artists to create new work inspired by items and artefacts in our collections.
We have postcards of several of the artworks now available for just £1 each, or £5 for the full set.
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Select options21 Revolutions: The Publication
A stunning book featuring creative responses by 42 women artists and writers to Glasgow Women’s Library’s archive and collection.
In 2012 Glasgow Women’s Library celebrated its 21st birthday. To mark two decades of life-changing work, GWL commissioned 21 internationally renowned artists and 21 published writers to create new works inspired by our unique museum, archive and library collections. The resulting fine art prints, poems and creative writing have been brought together with the sources that inspired the work in a beautiful, lushly illustrated, enlightening and readable book.
21 Spare Ribs: Exclusive ltd edition screenprint by Helen de Main
To mark Glasgow Women’s Library’s 21st anniversary, the Library commissioned 21 women artists to create new work inspired by items and artefacts in our collections.
The texts in each of Helen de Main's works are drawn directly from the January edition of Spare Rib through its 21 year history
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Select optionsArms!: Exclusive ltd edition mixed media/Giclee print by Corin Sworn
To mark Glasgow Women’s Library’s 21st anniversary, the Library commissioned 21 women artists to create new work inspired by items and artefacts in our collections.
Corin Sworn's Arms! is inspired by Landscape For a Good Woman by the sociologist Carol Steedman.
Grassroots: Exclusive ltd edition digital pigment fine art print by Delphine Dallison
To mark Glasgow Women’s Library’s 21st anniversary, the Library commissioned 21 women artists to create new work inspired by items and artefacts in our collections.
Delphine Dallison drew her inspiration from the collection of badges in the GWL archive.
Homespun: Exclusive ltd edition screen print by Kate Gibson
To mark Glasgow Women’s Library’s 21st anniversary, the Library commissioned 21 women artists to create new work inspired by items and artefacts in our collections.
Kate Gibson's Homespun is a homage to the dedicated homemakers of the 1950s. It’s a modern-day domestic sticker bombing campaign, where completed chores are rewarded with stickers to be collected like coupons or co-op stamps.
Horses: Exclusive ltd edition print by Sarah Wright
To mark Glasgow Women’s Library’s 21st anniversary, the Library commissioned 21 women artists to create new work inspired by items and artefacts in our collections.
Sarah Wright’s Horses takes the library’s vast collection of zines as its starting point.