women of cornwall
katie bunnell
Women of Cornwall, in collaboration with ceramic artist Katie Bunnell, will create a new collection of 50 plates highlighting and celebrating significant women of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
The plates will become a permanent collection at Art Centre Penryn.
Firstly, we need to identify potential women to include in the collection. We are inviting everyone to contribute to this by highlighting women they think should feature on a plate.
We’re looking for women who have made meaningful contributions to the region in a broad a range of areas.
They could be from the worlds of:
visual arts • sciences • engineering • literature • environment • farming • fishing • health • sport • social care • community & voluntary action • maritime • hospitality • education and learning • performing arts • business and enterprise • media and communications • inspirational leadership in any sector • politics •
You can make a suggestion of women to include by clicking the button below.
Discovering women who have not yet been recognised for their achievements is particularly important to us. No achievement or impact is too small for a woman to be suggested. So please bring forward anyone you think is doing something important that should be more widely acknowledged!
All women suggested will appear here on the Art Centre Penryn website.
The second phase of the project will work with a group of artists to design and make the plates for the collection. We think the final selection of 50 is likely to span the ages to include people who are alive today, women from history and maybe even mythical women. Their Cornishness might be fluid, but whatever they have done we think their achievements should have a special connection with this unique county.
Selecting just 50 of all the amazing women out there with a connection to Cornwall isn’t going to be easy. So we are putting together an advisory group and have invited Black Voices Cornwall, Access Cornwall and others, to help us capture a diverse and inspirational group of women.
If you know someone you would like to bring forward, but don’t know all their details, our project partners at Hypatia Trust, Penzance and Kresen Kernow, Redruth may well be able to help with that.
Keep up to date with the project here and on Instagram: @womenofcornwall
Women of Cornwall is made possible with funding from The National Lottery Heritage Fund. This project is also part-funded by the UK Government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.