For textile artist Vanessa Marr the humble yellow duster is far more than just a cleaning cloth. For Marr, household chores and ‘domestic’ items are symbols of empowerment for women rather than of domestic servitude.
Her Domestic Dusters collaborative arts project invites women to embroider their domestic experiences, complaints, and celebrations as words or images on to a yellow duster. It showcases a selection of dusters that have been embroidered by women from across the world, challenging the legacy of so-called women’s work. Nearly ten years ago, Marr came up with the idea of using dusters as a way of expressing women’s thoughts on domestic work.
“I’ve discovered that the duster is well-known in the UK, some parts of Europe and Australia, less so in America, New Zealand, or India. This has led to other domestic cloths occasionally joining the collection, which nonetheless represent the same thing – invisibility, mundaneness, lack of value and domesticity.” Marr aims to raise the voices of women and their roles in the home across the world and through the years, through her art.
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