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The work was created during Making Space for Art-making Workshop (25th March, 10am) and from the Magical Women Neurodivergent Artists Platform (Facebook Group open to all).
Every fortnight we do a call out challenge for neurodivergent, survivor and magical artists to respond to a theme. They have up to two weeks to respond to it in the Facebook group or 2.5 hours of exploration with art materials in the online Art-Making Workshop over Zoom.
This first online Workshop had 8 Magical Women come together to make art. They had complete autonomy over themselves as they attended to their own art practice. During the sharing using Jungian’s Collective Unconscious, the symbols, colours and imagery drawn up from the artwork mirrored similar symbols, themes and shone out our inner goddesses and strength.
We invited other Magical Women and Magical artists to contribute their artwork to this theme and the art pieces brought to this art space shimmer with feminine energy, warm sunny yellows brimming, rubbing beside rich golden hues against the sharp contrast of steel blues and slithers of silver with matted teal and the shining tunes of purples.
These colours radiate communication, connection and dreams, swarming with determination, persistence and kindred spirit.
“Questions for the audience to consider:
When artists make art, where is the space for them to
consider their subject?
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When audiences view art,
When do they have the space to consider
art, with the artist right beside them?
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When do artists have a moment to share?
without needing to explain or defend?
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Artists need space to talk about their art
in ways of their choosing;
that’s when they can consider their intentions.”
Portrait of a Girl I Know - Patsy Maloney - Hamersham
“She’s a girl I know, she’s a girl who drinks far too much, I don’t think even she knows she has a drinking problem. (Pause) But I’m fascinated by her. ”
Mangoes - Judith Rowlands
We hope this online art exhibition offers you space away from the one you’re in and that the symbolism, colours and rituals within open up new ideas in your own art-making practice too.
Magical Women can buy tickets to our next Making Space for Art-Making Workshop (8th April, 10am) HERE.
“I was surprised by how much I went for it, they’re only sketches, but I really painted them, I went for it. I’m looking at the colours, how bright they are.”
Sketches from Making Space for Art-Making Workshop by Lucy Strathon
Growth by Judith Rowlands (Materials: Gouache on Paper)
Red Lillies - Judith Rowlands (Materials: Acrylic on Paper)
Hanging Plums - Judith Rowlands (Materials: Acrylic/Ink on Paper)
Lemons - Judith Rowlands (Materials: Acrylic on Paper)
“I am an artist making space and giving time for myself to explore and play. I am foraging. I am using what i can, what is here, whilst here, in lockdown, with the little I have, the few materials. I am exploring colours, and experimenting on the surfaces I paint on.”
Self Portrait - Gemma Abbott
“I am not making some days. Some days are for me. Others are also for me, to make work that is mine.”
Portrait by Livvy Lynch
“She doesn’t know how beautiful she is.”
“I couldn’t see her to finish her.”
Jasmine Crellin - My Intention (Materials: Pencil on grained paper)
“Understanding contemporary feminism is to embrace modern femininity and womanhood in all its forms”
Quotation of the Mind (Pre-Isolation) Art in Process - Emily Baines (Materials: Wood and Canvas)
“I’m not done with her, I want to keep adding things in, adding things on, there’s so much more to do, but for now-”
“Perhaps you could bring her in to the other exhibitions?”
Intention - Shauna K. Kappers (Materials: Prismacolor pencils and acrylic paint on mylar)
“It has been restorative; to gather online with others, to make art. ”
Communion - Michelle Rodrigues (Pastel and Mixed Media on Paper)
“During sharing, symbols united, themes of shells... and the ways of making was changed, creating occurred differently, and with it, the artwork became transformative.”
Formed Chords - Julia Harris
Supernova Sunset - Blair Iris (Materials: Alcohol Inks on Yupo Paper; Teal, Baja blue, Golden yellow, and Magenta)
“I have felt alien all my life, until my diagnosis, then my whole life made sense. I didn’t feel less alien.”
Reading - Elinor Rowlands (Materials: Ink on Paper)
“I never know where I will go, how I will paint, what will happen, it’s the group that takes me on that journey, it’s the collective unconscious that is opening me up, giving me a changing, changed, new voice. ”
Swirling - Elinor Rowlands (Materials: Mixed Media on Canvas)
Alien Landscape I - Blair Iris (Materials: Alcohol Inks on Yupo Paper; Teal, Baja blue, Golden yellow, and Magenta)
“These artists were chosen In Solidarity because of the resonance to the work made in response to the theme, and also because they were both made on the same day as when we created.”
Invited In Solidarity / Magical Artists
Corona 4 - My Intention
Johnny's Lockdown Photo of the Day - Number Four: Sunday's Spectral Stairs by John Maher (Materials: Photography)
Right here, right now
The Magnolia tree up the hill
Is at its best
Blooming on a white background
Kindly left by developers
A little further on
The two Magnolias in Wood Lane
Are at their best
Standing crooked in front of a blue house
Painted to look like Greece
Coming back around the block
The Magnolia tree close to home
May be at its best
The untidy green hedge in front of it
Stands to hide its glory
Some twelve months on
The Magnolia trees will be there
Blooming at their best
I will walk and photograph them
Released from isolation.
by Richard Downes
Their Intentions in their words by the Artists Themselves
Audience Feedback
Visitors to this page are invited to send us feedback of the exhibition through drawings, visuals, words, poetry or notes and we shall publish these underneath this Online Exhibition. You can submit these anonymously. This Online Exhibition will be archived once our next exhibition to the theme of “My Wisdom” will take its place. The point of Magical Women is to encourage art-making, to respond through art making and to share our art-making with new and wider audiences. We’d love to gather up your feedback to nourish your making with our making and vice versa. Send them HERE
Thank you for your visit.
With love,
Magical Women x
Feedback from Audiences
Just looked at the online show and what a beautiful display of a restorative, transformative, and communal project, reminding us that isolation and social distancing does not have to mean loneliness and soul distancing. There appears a thread of optimism in blooming flowers, ripe fruit, vessels for holding or filling, a human listening to music or words, complementary colours.
Look forward to seeing the next instalment!
Lisha, London, UK
“Fantastic Exhibition, bright colours, bright everything.”
We appreciate donations no matter how small (the cost of a coffee) to support our work, championing the art and words of autistic/ADHD, survivor and magical artists. Thank you for your donation.
(Please do not feel obliged to donate, only donate if you’re able to and you want to.)
“Transfixed by colours, forms and descriptive text. Loved it. Soothed by it somehow. ”
“Good Luck with all your work! Terrific Art.”