Hold Your Tongue

You are invited to join artist Ailie Rutherford for a drawing workshop at Glasgow Museums Resource Centre with objects from the collection relating to her research. Ailie is currently undertaking an R&D Associate Artist role in response to the Domestic Bliss exhibition at GoMA. As part of this research she has been spending time with historical objects from the museum: iron collars known as jougs, and head restraints referred to as witches’ branks or scold’s bridles. These are deeply charged artefacts - objects used mostly on women - designed to silence, control, publicly shame and maintain patriarchal order and used in the Scottish witch trials to hold down the accused witches tongue.

Ailie is holding this workshop as an invitation to draw these objects with her, to feel their weight and reflect through conversations about their histories, both speculative and historical, as part of her ongoing research into the silencing and erasure of women and queer bodies through history.

It is a unique opportunity to draw these items usually held in storage. This workshop is open to women and other marginalised genders interested in feminism, queer histories and feminist economics - exploring whose histories have been erased and silenced.

All materials will be provided. With any drawings you create, there is the option to be credited as part of the project that Ailie is developing with GoMA. The drawings you make will be yours to take away, but we ask that you credit the research if using publicly and that we can take a photocopy for a record of the workshop.

Notes:

CONTENT WARNING

• This workshop will deal with themes of misogyny and violence. There will be a group discussion where homophobia and other oppressions may come up.
• If you feel uncomfortable or need to step out of the workshop at any point a quiet space will be made available

The workshop will be documented but there will be an option to opt-out of photography

This workshop is the first in a series of 3 workshops:
Hold Your Tongue
Scream in Domestic Bliss
Counterfeiting the office of husband

You are welcome to book into one of the workshops or to attend all three

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Glasgow Museums Resource Centre, 200 Woodhead Road, Glasgow, United Kingdom

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