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''PROCESSIONS'' was a mass participation artwork that took place in several British cities on 10 June 2018. The piece consisted of women and girls marching in cities and "forming a living portrait of women in the 21st century and a visual expression of equality, strength and cultural representation". Many men joined women in the subsequent marches.
One hundred textile banners created by female artists were carried during the four marches. Scarves in the Suffragette colours of Green White and Violet were worn by the marching women in parallel streams through the cities.
The piece commemorated the 100th anniversary of the
''PROCESSIONS'' was a mass participation artwork that took place in several British cities on 10 June 2018. The piece consisted of women and girls marching in cities and "forming a living portrait of women in the 21st century and a visual expression of equality, strength and cultural representation". Many men joined women in the subsequent marches.
One hundred textile banners created by female artists were carried during the four marches. Scarves in the Suffragette colours of Green White and Violet were worn by the marching women in parallel streams through the cities.
The piece commemorated the 100th anniversary of the Representation of the People Act 1918
The Representation of the People Act 1918 was an Act of Parliament passed to reform the electoral system in Great Britain and Ireland. It is sometimes known as the Fourth Reform Act. The Act extended the franchise in parliamentary elections, also ...
, which granted suffrage
Suffrage, political franchise, or simply franchise, is the right to vote in representative democracy, public, political elections and referendums (although the term is sometimes used for any right to vote). In some languages, and occasionally i ...
to many British women. It was one of a number of works commissioned by the British government's 14-18 NOW
''14-18'' (also known as ''Over There, 1914-18'') is a 1963 French documentary film about World War I, directed by Jean Aurel. It was nominated for an Academy Award
The Academy Awards, better known as the Oscars, are awards for artistic a ...
project to mark the events of World War I
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...
in the United Kingdom.
Marches took place in Belfast, Cardiff, Edinburgh and London. The piece was produced by Artichoke
The globe artichoke (''Cynara cardunculus'' var. ''scolymus'' ),Rottenberg, A., and D. Zohary, 1996: "The wild ancestry of the cultivated artichoke." Genet. Res. Crop Evol. 43, 53–58. also known by the names French artichoke and green articho ...
.
See also
*Statue of Millicent Fawcett
The statue of Millicent Fawcett in Parliament Square, London, honours the British suffragist leader and social campaigner Dame Millicent Fawcett. It was made in 2018 by Gillian Wearing. Following a campaign and petition by the activist Caroline C ...
, a statue of the suffrage campaigner Millicent Fawcett
Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett (née Garrett; 11 June 1847 – 5 August 1929) was an English politician, writer and feminist. She campaigned for women's suffrage by legal change and in 1897–1919 led Britain's largest women's rights associati ...
unveiled in Parliament Square as part of 14-18 NOW
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* {{Italic title 2018 in London 2018 in Scotland 2018 in Northern Ireland 2018 in Wales Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom 2018 works Performances Demonstrations June 2018 events in the United Kingdom