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On a Pot Bank: Finishing Off the Edges of the Unbaked Plates on a Whirler

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Sylvia Pankhurst’s lifelong interest was in the rights of working women, and in 1907 she spent several months touring industrial communities painting and writing about the working and living conditions of women workers. Pankhurst observed women as assistants to male potters in lower paid, physically demanding unskilled roles in every pottery she visited, making this painting a rare example of a woman working alone at a skilled activity. Inequality was not the only hardship facing the pottery workers however, as Pankhurst wrote of hazardous conditions where workers inhaled powdered flint dust from the scouring of newly baked unglazed pottery and inhaled the fumes of lead glaze, and earned only 7 shillings per week.

Artist Sylvia Pankhurst
Artwork On a Pot Bank: Finishing Off the Edges of the Unbaked Plates on a Whirler
Material FSC certified paper and wood
Date of work 1907
Credit Sylvia Pankhurst On a Pot Bank: Finishing Off the Edges of the Unbaked Plates on a Whirler, Gouache on paper, 44.5 x 32.3 cm, Purchased with funds provided by the Denise Coates Foundation 2021 © Estate of Sylvia Pankhurst
Colour Multicolour

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Sylvia Pankhurst (1882–1960) was a British artist, activist and writer. A prominent figure in the suffragette movement, Pankhurst’s ambition as an artist was always to create work in the service of social causes. After training at the Manchester School of Art and the Royal College of Art, London, she created works for the WSPU (Women’s Social and Political Union) highlighting the working conditions and important contributions of women workers to underline the need for equal pay and rights, as well as designs for banners and emblems including the famous ‘angel of freedom’ graphic. She eventually gave up painting and drawing in favour of other aspects of her political activism, and was a lifelong campaigner for socialism, Irish independence, anti-colonialism, and anti-fascism. Tate held an exhibition of her artistic works at Tate Britain in 2013–14.

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