The ‘HERstory’ exhibition traces the topographies of triumph and shared struggle that women endure through time and the cumulative empowerment that emerges from their artistic liberation. It is the reckoning of personhood and womanhood simultaneously that all weave together to form profoundly distinct yet interconnecting individual stories that ultimately resonate with the collective.
The intuitive and creative undertaking of ‘HERstory’ is to foster compassion, belonging and the freedom to express through authentic narratives of embodied experience told through the uniting essence of the visual arts. It is the amplification of individual interpretation of the feminine voice, of those who identify as women, by means of artistic studio practice.
The concept of the exhibition was inspired by a need to bridge those dichotomies of identity that generate polarisation rather than a coalescence of embraced diversity. From this conceptual foundation, the exhibition grasps beyond the borders of identity, to instead foreground those characteristically universal experiences of womanhood that intersect.
The ‘HERstory’ exhibition traces the topographies of triumph and shared struggle that women endure through time and the cumulative empowerment that emerges from their artistic liberation. It is the reckoning of personhood and womanhood simultaneously that all weave together to form profoundly distinct yet interconnecting individual stories that ultimately resonate with the collective. This is the month of women’s stories. This is the month not of history, but of herstory.
The intention is the transcendence of experiential anthesis, cultivated through a celebratory spirit of artistic voice expressed through visual aesthetics of unity. It is the guided commemoration of the multiplicities of converging experiences that comprise the resounding definition of what it means to be women, what it means to be her, in contexts that are past, present, and personal.
