All these are the powers and privileges of friendship
Poster
c. 1980-90 (made)
c. 1980-90 (made)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
The Lenthall Road Workshop in Hackney was founded in 1975 by three women, Chia Moan, Viv Mullett and Jenny Smith. They took over an existing screen printing shop and turned it into a community printing workshop, focusing predominantly on engaging with local feminist, anti-racist and LGBTQ+ rights groups. Their ethos was 'once you start seeing yourself as a person who can do things then you're in a position to take control of your life'. Running various courses, in particular for women of colour and queer communities, their premises at 81 Lenthall Road was a valued creative hub which lasted for approximately 15 years. Their work and legacy was celebrated in a 2019 retrospective at the Hackney Museum entitled 'Women on Screens: Printmaking, Photography and Community Activism at Lenthall Road Workshop 1970s-1990s'.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | All these are the powers and privileges of friendship (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Printing, paper, plastic laminate |
| Brief description | Poster made at the Lenthall Road Workshop, London, featuring a quote by Zora Neale Hurston. Great Britain, 1980s. |
| Physical description | Portrait poster, showing different edited images of women in different situations. The top band of the poster, which has a blue background shows a woman hugging her child. The next band, on a green background which fades to yellow through to orange, shows two women practising martial arts, and the bottom band, with a red background, shows two women laughing together as friends. |
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| Credit line | Given by the Greenwich Mural Workshop. |
| Object history | Poster featured in the Greenwich Mural Workshop's 1986 exhibition 'Printing is Easy...?' The poster was made during a Black women's screen printing course in June, 1987, held at 81 Lenthall Road Workshop, Hackney. |
| Summary | The Lenthall Road Workshop in Hackney was founded in 1975 by three women, Chia Moan, Viv Mullett and Jenny Smith. They took over an existing screen printing shop and turned it into a community printing workshop, focusing predominantly on engaging with local feminist, anti-racist and LGBTQ+ rights groups. Their ethos was 'once you start seeing yourself as a person who can do things then you're in a position to take control of your life'. Running various courses, in particular for women of colour and queer communities, their premises at 81 Lenthall Road was a valued creative hub which lasted for approximately 15 years. Their work and legacy was celebrated in a 2019 retrospective at the Hackney Museum entitled 'Women on Screens: Printmaking, Photography and Community Activism at Lenthall Road Workshop 1970s-1990s'. |
| Bibliographic reference | From the Greenwich Mural Workshop's 1986 exhibition 'Printing is Easy...?' |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | E.597-2013 |
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| Record created | November 20, 2013 |
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