A Preston artist has created a participatory art project where women submit their names to be included in a growing visual archive.
Sarah McCaffrey is a lesbian artist and founder of Caffer’s Art, creating humorous work centred on lesbian and queer women.
Her project, The Women Who Love Women Archive, began inside a lesbian bar toilet and has since gone global with over 1,500 names submitted from over 25 countries.
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Submissions are open to anyone who identifies as a woman attracted to women, whether single, in a couple, or in a polyamorous relationship.
Each name is then hand-drawn into detailed scenes of queer spaces, appearing as layered graffiti across the surfaces of the artwork.
Sarah said: “The archive unfolds across a series of connected environments, starting in a toilet cubicle, moving to a bathroom sink, and gradually expanding throughout the bar and into wider public spaces.
“The project responds to the historical erasure of relationships between women, which have often been dismissed or rewritten as friendships. By placing real names into visible, carefully rendered environments, the work creates a lasting record that resists that erasure.”
To find out more, visit the Caffers Art website.
