On display

Resisters

Poster
ca. 2018 (made)
Artist/Maker
Aqui (artist)
Place of origin
London (printed)

Risograph poster depicting four diverse women protesting. One has a loud hailer, two women with headscarves have their arms raised, and the final figure has very short hair and a checked shirt.

Object details

Categories
Posters
Politics
Object type
Poster
TitleResisters (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Risograph poster
Paper (Fiber Product)
Risography
Brief description
Poster by Aqui Thami entitled 'Resisters'. Printed in the UK, 2018.
Physical description
Risograph poster depicting four diverse women protesting. One has a loud hailer, two women with headscarves have their arms raised, and the final figure has very short hair and a checked shirt.
Dimensions
  • Height: 42cm
  • Width: 29.9cm
Measured 2019
Gallery label
(01/07/2023)
Women’s equality

Graphic design has brought attention to the fight for women’s equality for over a hundred years.

In the UK, a key moment was the granting of voting rights to some women in 1918. Feminism expanded in the 1970s to promote equality of the sexes. Since the 1990s, it has moved towards an understanding that the fight for empowerment relates to all underrepresented identities.

3 What a Woman may be, and yet not have the Vote
Designer: The Suffrage Atelier
Date: 1913
Location: England
Materials: Woodcut printed paper
Given by Miss A. E. Norris
Museum no. E.646-1972

4 Black women will not be intimidated
Designer: See Red Women’s Workshop
Date: 1980–81
Location: England
Materials: Screenprint on paper
Given by Suzy Mackie, Pru Stevenson and Bronwen Rice
Museum no. E.91-2011

5 Resisters
Designer: Aqui
Date: 2018
Location: UK
Materials: Risograph on paper
Given by Aqui Thami
Museum no. E.669-2019

6 Women’s liberation is the revolution!!
Designer: Pen Dalton
Date: About 1974
Location: England
Materials: Screenprint on paper
Gift of the American Friends of the V&A; Gift to the American Friends by Leslie, Judith and Gabri Schreyer and Alice Schreyer Batko
Museum no. E.788-2004

7 Can you find her?
Designer: UN Women Egypt and DDB
Dubai
Date: 2017
Location: Dubai
Materials: Printed paper

[Young V&A, Design Gallery, Design gives us a voice, group object label]
Credit line
Given by Aqui Thami
Object history
Aqui Thami is a Darjeeling-based contemporary indigenous artist whose work focuses on empowering marginalised communities and ‘making art to reclaim’. An entirely self-taught artist, she built resilience and reached out to others through her multidisciplinary art practice, which encompasses poster-making, performance, zine creation and photography. During her residency with the V&A Research Institute (VARI) in October 2018 to January 2019, supported by the Andrew W Mellon Foundation, she explored political posters in the V&A collection and made a significant number of risograph posters at the Old Manor Park Library, working closely with the artist's collective One of My Kind (OOMK), who run a community print studio and publishing press on site called Rabbits Road Press.
Subjects depicted
Protest
Women
Feminism
Activism
Genderqueer
Headscarves
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.669-2019

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Record createdApril 29, 2019
Record URL
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