We are a group of artists and designers from The Leeds School of Contemporary Art & Graphic Design at Leeds Met University who are working together to define feminism for ourselves and explore how these ideas apply to our lives and concerns.
We are a collective of students and staff from different backgrounds, disciplines and age groups, formed as a direct response to the environment in we live and the visual material we encounter everyday that uses and creates images of women.
Although this isn’t a recent trend, there appears to be a more mainstream acceptance of one-dimensional representations of women within popular culture; from advertising billboards to magazines and TV. As people who work within the creative industries, using our skills as writers, photographers, curators, designers and artists, we are interested in questioning, initiating debate and discussing this material, as well as identifying the roles we can play in redefining women.
The Women’s Movement is often seen as something that happened a long time ago, as something that doesn’t apply now. We believe in its relevance today for women and men of all ages and backgrounds who believe in the principles of equality. We consider ourselves Feminists.
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