Joan Ashworth
Joan Ashworth
Description: This website documents research undertaken by Ashworth to explore ways in which documentary film can be employed to reassess Sylvia Pankhurst’s work and methods of campaigning, calling on the possibilities of animation to unfreeze her drawings and harness new tools to help express ideas embedded in the work. This project also aims to encounter Pankhurst through hearing from those who knew her and worked with her including original interviews with her son Richard
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This website documents research undertaken by Ashworth to explore ways in which documentary film can be employed to reassess Sylvia Pankhurst’s work and methods of campaigning, calling on the possibilities of animation to unfreeze her drawings and harness new tools to help express ideas embedded in the work. This project also aims to encounter Pankhurst through hearing from those who knew her and worked with her, including original interviews with her son Richard.
Experiment 1
This experiment tests the effectiveness of combining the voice of a former suffragette with one of Sylvia Pankhurst’s paintings.
Joan Ashworth
Joan Ashworth