Essential Information
| Type | Events and festivals |
|---|---|
| Location | |
| Date and Times | Friday 10 March 2023 | 10.30am-11.30am |
| Prices | Pay what you can |
Join the Girl Friday Breakfast Club at the National Maritime Museum for a cuppa and a croissant and meet our guest speaker, the artist Mary Evans.
The Girl Friday Breakfast Club provides a friendly and informal space for women to meet, chat and support each other. All women, and those who identify as women, are very welcome to join.
Doors open 10am, with refreshments available in the Propeller Space (near the giant ship propeller by the bookshop). Feel free to ask a member of staff for directions.
Book online to reserve your place: entry is free but you can choose to support the event with a £5 or £10 donation if you wish.
Afterwards at 11:45am-1:45pm, Anita Taylor will be holding a free, one-off drawing workshop in the Museum's Learning Space exploring the female as subject. Click here for more information and to book your place - spaces are limited.
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About the Girl Friday Breakfast Club
The Girl Friday Breakfast Club was established in 2018 to mark the anniversary of the Women’s Movement by Anita Taylor (pictured) with her colleague Kate Reynolds at Drawing Projects UK.
There is no agenda, other than hearing from an interesting woman speaker about their life, career and passions. Meetings take place over breakfast on the last Friday of each month, and past speakers have included Alice Workman, Helen Legg, Esen Kaya, Mikey Cuddihy, Elissa Auther, Tania Kovats, Dolla Merrillees, Elisa Alaluusua, Mariele Neudecker amongst many others.
The Girl Friday Breakfast Club is usually held at Drawing Projects UK, a centre for drawing in Wiltshire, in situ or online. This very special Girl Friday event is held at Royal Museums Greenwich during our fifth birthday year, in association with the Drawing SEAson and Women’s History Month.
Introducing our guest: Mary Evans
Born in Lagos in 1963, Mary Evans is a London-based artist. She studied at Goldsmiths College London and the Rijksakademie Amsterdam.
In her practice Evans uses kraft paper and other disposable materials to consider sites, stories, place and belonging through the social, political and historical frames of Diaspora, migration Global mobility and exchange. Evans is engaged in investigating and interrogating the African body as a site for historical and contemporary narratives of violence, geography, mobility and globalisation. However, Evans is ultimately concerned with telling stories about the resilience of the Black body and its ability to endure and prevail despite the challenges meted out to it. This cross-cultural discourse is paralleled by a secondary discourse that links methods of image production, ’fine art’ and ‘craft’, decoration and ornament. Evans is involved in articulating the emblematic devices of two cultures by employing equally emblematic methods of image production; stencilling, cutting, printing, pasting and stamping.
Evans has taken part in several exhibitions and residencies in the UK and Internationally including: Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, NMAFA Washington DC, USA (2010); The Arts & Literary Arts Residency, Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio, Italy (2014); ); Still The Barbarians EVA International, Limerick, Ireland (2016); Lagos Photo, Lagos, Nigeria (2018), 11 Bienal Do Mercosul , Porto Alegre, Brazil (2018), Layers La Banque Arts Centre, Bethune, France (2019), Paper Routes Women to watch NMWA Washington DC, USA (2020) and Gilt, Solo Exhibition; Zeitz MOCAA Cape Town SA (2023).
Mary Evans is the BAFA Course Leader at Chelsea College of Arts.
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