Magna Carta Women

Tracy Satchwill is a multi-disciplinary artist working in Norwich, UK. She works with moving image, sound, performance and digital processes to explore, through a feminist perspective, ideologies, history and social structures that shape our behaviours and viewpoints. Her work revolves around collage, working with film, photography, mixed media, artefacts and archival materials.

 

She has exhibited internationally with venues including Somerset House, the Science Museum, Empire State Building, the Guildhall Art Gallery and the Old Truman Brewery. Her films have screened at film festivals and art galleries including Montreal International Film Festival. Her Arts Council awarded Magna Carta Women project, depicting women and men that paved the way for women’s rights, toured England as part of the Magna Carta celebrations in 2015. Hysterical Females, an experimental film exploring discrimination against Edwardian women, screened at events and art galleries marking the centenary of women’s suffrage in 2018.  

 

She has a Master's in Communication Design from Norwich University of the Arts and a BA (Hons) in Illustration from University of Plymouth. She is currently a virtual artist in residence at North Lincolnshire Museum, exploring different methods of storytelling within a museum setting. She is also attending a mentorship programme with Collusion and Norwich University of the Arts to explore new digital technologies within her practice.

The quadriptych captures the journey of British women over the last 800 years since the signing of the Magna Carta. The 4-piece panel highlighted some of the notable women and men that have had an influence on British women and their long and arduous journey towards individual rights and freedoms. 

 

The collage takes its inspiration from stained glass windows, the main visual art form of the Magna Carta era. Eve, reaching for an apple, stands next to King John signing the Magna Carta, which becomes the central pathway in the Garden of Eden. It features Mary Wollstonecraft (A Vindication of the Rights of Women), Emmeline Pankhurst (political activist and leader of the British suffrage movement), Heidi Mirza (Professor studying educational inequalities for Black and Asian females), John Stuart Mill (The Subjection of Women), George Lansbury (led the campaign for women's rights in parliament) and Edith Lanchester (protester against anti-women marriage laws), who all  championed women's rights.

Created 2014

Edition of 3

4-piece panel Digital Collage - digital print using Durst's Lambda machine via Genesis Imaging printers with a perspex face mount and sub frame.

61x92cm per panel

Perspex Face Mount and Sub Frame