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The suffragette map This two sided map is about the Women’s suffrage movement and how this corresponds with the life of Margaret White. This map is designed to be pulled out like a row of paper dolls, much like a row of nurses (of which White was one of in the 1890s at the Auckland Mental Hospital) living the life of the Victorian template. -
Screen print on pattern making tissue using found images. Height 126mm, length when folded up 65mm, fully extended 400mm. Photographs from the Auckland War Memorial Museum collection of Margaret Matilda Whites glass plates and negatives. -
Illustration from the New Zealand Graphic and Ladies Journal 30th September 1893. Hunter, Ashley John Barsby, 1854-1932: Womens’ Vote. ‘She that is to be obeyed’. Engraving from the New Zealand Graphic, 21 July 1894 (the year New Zealand women gained the vote). ‘The Summit at Last’. -
The pioneer girl This photograph of Amelia Carter was taken at the Howick historical village. Photography by Caroline Wright. This illustration of Amelia and our rabbit Cinnamon was drawn from a photograph using traced proportion with parts merging with the photograph to achieve a drawn painterly quality.
Continuing on from the work I made surrounding Margaret Matilda White, the next series of work is a broadening of this theme. Starting at the beginning from a desire to connect with my surroundings in building one of the old Avondale mental hospital, my project now became a desire to connect with my heritage as a New Zealand women who had descended from the same strong resourceful pioneering stock as Margaret Matilda White.
So linking to the psychiatrist Donald W Winnicott’s (1896 – 1971) idea of “The place where cultural experience is located in the potential space between the individual and the environment” I sought to create a rewarding cultural experience surrounding the achievements of our ancestral women.
Through my daughters Amelia and Laura’s involvement in this work, I attempted to create a lasting impression of what these pioneer women had achieved so my daughters would feel a sense of pride and have a new appreciation of their ancestral heritage. My aim is to preserve this knowledge of our extraordinary forebears, thus not forgetting where we came from.
A publication was created that involved both of my daughters. For my oldest this was in a context in which her talent for creative writing could be utilised through the writing of the story of the pioneer girl. For my youngest, the chance to learn and experience the story through play acting and contributing illustrations.
With thanks to my tutor Susan Jowsey.
Winnicott, D. W. “Playing and Reality”.London: Brunner-Routledge, 2001. Print
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A selection of double page spreads from “The Apron” a publication which was a collaborative effort between my two daughters, Laura age nineteen (who wrote the story of the pioneer girl) and Amelia aged ten (who illustrated for this story and was the pioneer girl and nurse from playing and reality part one). Slide 1 is the embossed title page from the publication “The Apron”. -
This publication is in two parts and was an attempt to bring together all of the work from 2011. The first part is a story about the first day for a young girl who has just arrived in New Zealand in 1851. -
The second part tells the history of our strong New Zealand pioneers and features the work from the first semester of 2011. -
This book was designed to have the fiction and the non − fiction sections on alternating double page spreads. -
The history pages were concealed inside the story pages which were sewn shut with the tacking stitch. -
To open this information the reader would have to unpick the tacking at the edge of the page to release the inside pages. -
This was a construct to separate the story from the factual information and seemed an interesting and hands on way to engage the reader (Amelia and other children 9 - 12 years of age) in the practical craft of the stitch. -
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Bunny house. -
Amelia had fun playing with the pioneering rabbits.