Liverpool’s Women Creatives collective
international women’s day 2024
Liverpool’s Women Creatives collective
A Litany for liverpool’s womens creatives
This year for International Women’s Day, we invited women to take part in a piece of mass participation performance art that pays homage to the work of Hannah O’Shea (b.1939), having been alerted to her work at Tate Britain’s current exhibition, ‘WOMEN IN REVOLT!! ART AND ACTIVISM IN THE UK 1970-1990. O’Shea is a performance artist, filmmaker and founding member of the Women’s Artist Collective, and has had stills of her work featured on the cover of the iconic ‘Spare Rib’ magazine which shaped debate about feminism in the UK from 1972-1993.
There are two pieces our ‘happening’ referenced. The first being ‘Stills from a Visual Time Span’ which are photographs documenting a performance confronting fear of women’s power where O’Shea painted the performers body with optical effects comparable to animal markings.
The second was a piece called ‘A Litany For Women Artists’ where O’Shea chants the names of 600 women artists to ‘emphasise the ignorance and historical denial of their contributions as creative instigators’.
General info
Year of creation:
2024
Litany ▶
Rachel Treleaven
Jesscia Sawyer
Cath Garvey
Kirsten Little
Abigail Twigg
Johanna Wilson
Dawneey Monster
Emma Ashcroft
Dorrie Halliday
Alice Holland
Anna Levin
Rachel Waite
Ed Haynes
Solenna Le Goff
Ruth Dillon
Lisa Bostock
Laura Brownhill
Grace Goulding
Christy Bellis
Jerilyn Brown
Heather Jane Rose
Nina Edge
Emma Pullin
Charlotte Corrie
Ava Richards
Ruth Timmins-Williams
Eleanor Coole-Green
Rheannon Ormond
Tilda Teekens
Eve Howlett
Lo Tierney
Grace Edwards
Hannah Cahill
Jubeda Khatun
Genevieve Baker
Genine Reese
Bryony Jade
Alena Kudera
Frankii Phoenix
Laura Cotter
Dan Waine
Sasha Deepwell
Louise Baldwin
Elizabeth Brooks
Mary Lamb
Alice Way
Abi Horsfield
Sorrell Kerrison
Brittany Kefira
Aliki Perysinaki
Jo Pue
Sinead Nunes
Jade Heart
Hannah Ballard
Ruth Dillon
Sally Ayres
Vesper James-Ross
Emily Salinas
Katie Chesters
Sasha Spyrou
Clare Brumby
Jo Mary Watson
Angie Waller
Aisling Leyne
Sofia Janicka
Kohenoor Kamal
Emma Goult
Aelia Fuentes Penysinaki
Alexandra Morton
Mina Bihi
Jasmin Ada Knox
Alison Little
Alessia Pedrosa
Maria Gulina
Maria Malone
Louise Evans
Tamasine Seibold
Ragnhild Nordset
Pei Yee Tong
Kate Stewart
Natali O'Grady
Hannah Wilkes
Linda King
Misty Hay
Jen Hikins
Alexandra Urdea
Abby Boak
Leona Harris
Rachel Koramoah
Rosanne Benbow
Helen Quinn
Helen Byrne
Rebecca Little
Andrea Denton
Holly Tulloch
Laura Ferries
Cordelia Steveson
Miriam Sakwa
Faye Héran
Rosie Terry Toogood
Beija Flo
Nicola Leigh
Hayley Dickinson
Fi Gordon
Tracy Lewis
Holly Rebecca
Mithila Ramagavigan
A Litany For Women Artists
Hannah O’Shea (1977)
Liverpool’s Women Creatives
Mina Bihi (2024)
Credits
Laura Brownhill - Production Director
Rachel Waite - Choir Director
Nicola Leigh - Co-producer, Video and Web
Sorrell Kerrison - Video Editing
Mina Bihi - Stills Photography
Lo Tierney - Illustration and Graphic Design
Rachel Koramoah, Nell Shakespeare - Lead Vocalists
Special thanks for your support
Invisible Wind Factory
Sorrell Kerrison
DJ SuRu
Ruby Sparrow
Rob McGrory
A Litany for Liverpool’s Women Creatives poster
Lo Tierney (2024)
Thank you to all the women who came to The Invisible Wind Factory on Monday 4th March 2024 to co-create the mass performance piece that celebrates Liverpool’s Women Creatives who have come together since 2023 for International Women’s Day.
Stills from A Visual Time Span
Hannah O’Shea (1977)
This year the network expanded by 18 new people, so many thanks to those that have spread the word and brought recognition to our creative counterparts.
The Litany was performed and filmed as a happening with no prior rehearsal and was a real meditative endurance that felt very powerful to be a part of. Sending a special thanks to all the women that have taken on specific roles and put in extra work to make the event and the film a reality.
Happy International Women's Day 2024 to you all.
