FEMICIDE CENSUS
The Femicide Census for 2020, read in the House of Commons on International Women's Day 2021 was chilling and lead me to explore victim representation in the media. In most cases more is written about the killers, than victims, their images remaining prominent throughout the criminal justice process.
It became important to redress this by making embroidered drawings which respectfully contemplate each woman equally, representing them beautifully, alongside the stark facts of each killing. The use of individual embroidered squares, sewn to form a ‘quilt’, references what has long been viewed as ‘women’s work’. The Femicide Census for 2020, read in the House of Commons on International Women's Day 2021 was chilling and lead me to explore victim representation in the media. In most cases more is written about the killers, than victims, their images remaining prominent throughout the criminal justice process.
It became important to redress this by making embroidered drawings which respectfully contemplate each woman equally, representing them beautifully, alongside the stark facts of each killing. The use of individual embroidered squares, sewn to form a ‘quilt’, references what has long been viewed as ‘women’s work’.
