Wednesday Night is Girls’ Night
Assemblage, exhibited in
“Your Place or Mine”,
West Dean College, 2024
Fabric, cardboard, acrylic paint, wool, chicken wire, papier mache, found objects
In 1982 I met three women - Bonnie, Rose and Linda - at antenatal classes held in our local church hall. Once the babies were born we decided to carry on meeting - first on Wednesday afternoons, and later in the evenings. We've met most Wednesdays ever since and still call it 'girls' night' even though we're now in our sixties. We made this piece of work together in 2024 to celebrate our 42-year-old friendship. The space between the church hall and the papier mache girls is marked by 42 lines and there is also a ‘bucket’ theme: a bucket full of nappies, a bucket full of problems and conversations we’ve shared over the years, and a golden bucket full of our bucket lists.