Sylvia Pankhurst: Working Women

19 Jan-29 Apr 2018

Overview

In the centenary year for Women’s Suffrage in Britain – when women over 30 got the right to vote for the first time, we are showing a selection of paintings and pastels by Sylvia Pankhurst (1882-1960). The daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst, the leader of the Women’s Social and Political Union, Sylvia was a prominent Suffragette, and later an anti-fascist campaigner, as well as being an artist. She trained at Manchester School of Art, winning the prize for best female student in 1901, going on to win a scholarship to the Royal College of Art, London.