John Newling Intervention:

'Market of Hidden Labours.'

Using a market themed exhibition to showcase your ideas, using statistics such as pie charts and graphs to identify how women are unequal to men in society and as artists in the art world. It was very interesting to see how the public responded to the stall, and very interesting opinions and thoughts were exchanged. The idea of the stall is that it is about the 'Market of ideas' and how the language is exchanged between one another of the topic. The mannequins was a successful idea throughout the exhibition, because it enabled the public to express there opinions. The public wrote their opinions on a board which were divided into sections of the male and female and to identify many artists you can think of. Men were popular in terms of the old- fashioned artists such as Van Gogh, but the female side had lots of contemporary female artists which is interesting and identifies the shift of the era on how accepting as an art world we have become for female artists. This is a relief that the audience wanted to make a point, to say that women are actually equal in the art world. However women may be more accepted now, but the most famous artists that are recognised are men, the female artists that were mentioned are contemporary artist that many people of the general public would not have heard, unless they study or have an interest in art themselves. The quotations board was full of quotations from men and women in history, that were seen to have valued professions and intelligence, such as Aristotle who had lots of words to say about women that were derogatory, and sexist. The positive side was to see that not just women but men disagreed with the statements, so does this identify that women are more accepted in the world, maybe to an extent that professions are accepting to us, but were still sexualized as beings, as the media such as magazines, the T.V still exploit women.