These 4 multi-media art works address the persistent and challenging goals of gender equity, and explore gender roles, societal and family expectations, and the maintenance of power structures.

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My own personal journey has me placed in a time between the lives of my two grandmothers, and present society, where the security of women’s equity is still very fragile and unsettled. My paternal grandmother, who earned her PHD in biology before my father was born, and my maternal grandmother, a Voluntary Aid Detachment Nurse in WW1, graduated in the first class of physiotherapists from the University of Toronto. Here, almost 100 years later, rights to personal autonomy, disparities in economic security, opportunities professionally, and equal space in decision-making for women are all issues that need to be addressed, decades after women were finally recognized as “persons” under the law in Canada, and almost a century after these two women were educated.  Distressingly, issues facing minority groups of women are even more serious and contentious.

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The four works are personal, yet address these larger issues.  They integrate drawing, embroidery, photos, printed materials, ink and acrylic and also collaged items. A red thread runs through each of these works.

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