Women's Work: Second-Wave Feminist Art and Domestic Labour

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This project examines how second-wave feminist artists complicated the gendered politics of domestic labour in their work. While largely overlooked within art history, housework became a lightning rod for feminist debate during the 1970s and 80s, inspiring a range of artistic responses. My project addresses this under-researched body of work by analysing an intersectional, transnational selection of second- wave artwork that destabilises patriarchal understandings of social reproduction. Through archival research, interviews, and an object-centred approach, my project reveals how artists have engaged different practices and institutional contexts to question how socio-cultural values surrounding gender and labour are constructed, reinforced, and challenged.