#55 By Kathrin Longhurst - Sledge Hammer Girl - Enamel on Acrylic

By Kathrin Longhurst, 'Sledge Hammer Girl', Enamel on Acrylic, 60 x 80 cm, (Unframed)

Kathrin Longhurst’s visual language collides with the starting point of her own journey, as a child of the cold-war era, who has been to both sides of the iron-curtain. The contrast between war-propaganda imagery and glamorous promises of the other side of the wall, have been the inspirations of her early works. Longhurst reconsidered war propaganda aesthetics with ‘flying’ female warriors, in place of fearsome male figures of power. Her early works aim to bend the visual paradigm of men and women at war, imposed by the patriarchal power structures of the past. Longhurst’s initial approach is self-observational, rewriting the recent history to empower the idea of a gender-equal future.

A Note from WJN:

The artist has generously donated this piece to our Art 4 Healing Auction, helping us to raise funds for Adult Mentoring and Youth Mentoring Programs, and ‘Healing from Within’ - a Youth creativity program that supports incarcerated young women and those ‘at risk’ in our community. Women’s Justice Network thanks the artists for their involvement.

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