Produced by local historian + knowledge curator Dominique Tessier, Art Movements is a collection of workbooks aiming to encourage the study of Local Art Histories + initiate conversations on the nature of Northern Aesthetics.
Contents: Activity_1: Fill the Gaps Activity_2: Cherchez la Femme Activity_3: What Lady Butler Saw... Activity_4: Get the Picture!
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Activity_1: Fill the Gaps... Source: http://www.stockport1914-1918.co.uk/soldier.php?name_id=2068 Gertrude Powicke is believed to be the only woman commemorated on any memorial in the Borough of ___________. Her name is inscribed on those at Heaton Moor and the town's art gallery. She was born on 19 December 1887 in the Hatherlow area of ______________, where her father, Frederick, was the minister of the local Congregational Church. The family home was at the Parsonage. (...) When War was declared in 1914, Gertrude was a member of staff at _____________ High School for Girls. She was keen to join the war effort and WORKBOOK_4: “LEST WE FORGET”
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trained as a nurse. To help her chances of serving overseas, she also learnt to drive. In 1915 she joined the Friends Emergency and War Victims Relief Committee which had been formed by the ___________. It undertook medical duties, including founding a maternity hospital at Chalons-surMarne. Gertrude worked in France but it is not known where. In July 1918, 20 of the Committee's workers transferred to _____________ to assist with a typhoid epidemic. She was nursing in the area of Lemburg when she contracted typhoid herself and died soon after at Warsaw, the day before her 32nd birthday. Gertrude is buried in _________ but her name is inscribed on the family grave at Hatherlow Churchyard. Need help? Here are the missing words: Romiley, Warsaw, Quakers, Manchester, Stockport, Poland WORKBOOK_4: “LEST WE FORGET”
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Activity_2: Cherchez la Femme Go to Stockport Art Gallery's War Memorial. Have a good look can you spot the name of Gertrude Powicke?
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Activity_3: What Lady Butler Saw... "The hit of the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1874 was a military scene, Calling the Roll after an Engagement, Crimea, which was taken by most spectators to be a representation of soldiers of the Grenadier Guards mustering after the Battle of Inkerman. The star of the show was the artist, Elizabeth Thompson (later Lady Butler)2, aged 27, educated at the Female School of Art, South Kensington and in Italy and aspiring professional battle artist." Source: Lady Butler: The Re-invention of Military History by Claire Bowen Why do you think Lady Butler became a popular war artist? How would you define military art? WORKBOOK_4: “LEST WE FORGET”
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How would you define war art? Would you like to find out more about Lady Butler? If so, why?
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Activity_4: Get the Picture! Can you find on the web the following painting by Anna Airy? The 'L' Press: Forging the Jacket of an 18-Inch Gun, ArmstrongWhitworth Works, Openshaw (1918)
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