Hundred Heroines
Hundred Heroines and the Museum of Gloucester are looking for 100 Gloucester Heroines and we need your help!
Nominate your Gloucester Heroine by simply telling us why they are your heroine.
Tag us in a picture with #100GlosHeroines or email it to museums.education@gloucester.gov.uk
Contact us to take a picture of a Heroine. We can match you up, or simply send us your portrait of a Heroine to glostorama@hundredheroines.org
Your portrait will feature in the Community Gallery from December-March in 100x100: 100 Gloucester women photographed by 100 women photographers.
heroine
/ˈhɛrəʊɪn/
noun
A woman admired for her courage, outstanding achievements, or noble qualities.
A heroine is a woman who has done something brave, new, or good, and who is therefore greatly admired by a lot of people.
This project will see 100 women pick up their cameras to photograph 100 Gloucester Heroines showing the world how powerful we really are! Tag us in a picture of your heroine with #100GlosHeroines and keep an eye out for workshops being held at Hundred Heroines Headquarters; we want to encourage more women to take up photography and share their portraits here at the Museum.
From the front-line workers who have kept us going during the pandemic, to The Rt Revd Rachel Treweek – the 41st bishop of the city and the first woman to serve as a diocesan bishop in the Church of England – women in Gloucester have proven, on countless occasions, their indomitable, pioneering spirit.
“We are incredibly excited to be partnering with the Museum of Gloucester to bring together such inspirational women. We hope these portraits of local heroines will emphasise the importance of empowering women 365 days a year - not just on International Women’s Day. Hundred Heroines is proud to be doing just that, and we’re looking forward to working with communities in Gloucester to raise greater awareness of the heroines throughout 2022.”
— Hundred Heroines Founder and Chair, Del Barrett
About Hundred Heroines
Hundred Heroines is the only UK charity dedicated to advancing public awareness of women in photography. As women photographers, ‘Heroines’ challenge how we see the world, push artistic and social boundaries, and highlight human rights issues. Through innovative exhibitions and events, Hundred Heroines showcases the invaluable contribution women make – and have made – to the visual arts and to society, while building a living archive that aims to increase public appreciation of their work and transformational humanitarian impact.
Achieving independent charitable status in 2020, the charity has opened a dedicated space, at Jolt, a creative hub in the heart of the Kings Square development in Gloucester.
Discover their trailblazing work at https://hundredheroines.org/.
The inspiration behind this project was sparked by Hundred Heroines and their Heroine Elina Brotherus celebrating other women…
“I’m standing in front of Gillian Wearing’s suffragette monument in London. The 2018 sculpture depicts the British equality campaigner Dame Millicent Fawcett. It is the first public statue of a woman to be placed in Parliament Square in London, and the first one created by a woman artist. Fawcett is shown holding a banner with her famous slogan ‘Courage calls to courage everywhere’. This is a reference to a photographic series Wearing made in the 1990s in which she asked hundreds of strangers to write on a piece of paper what they would like to say – not what others would like them to say.
As my starting point I had a Yoko Ono quote ‘Never mind them. Keep creating.’ I’m also thinking of my younger colleague Ruqaiya Mazar from Oman who spoke of the importance of finding her own voice as an artist. And I’m thinking of all of you who feel they need encouragement and approval. YOU GO GIRLS!”
