Tall Tales will bring together a group of national and internationally based women visual artists, all of whom use narrative structure in their production to explore sensitive subject matter, often personal to themselves, yet relevant to the wider human experience and society at large. Their practice empowers them, enabling them to have a voice via which to communicate issues that cut across gende
r, identity, body politics, health, cultural heritage, inter-generational and familial concerns, as well as loss and memory. Combined, the Tall Tales artists’ work, whilst issues based, is highly engaging embracing humour, playfulness, invented realities, and myth, and often bridges the gaps between visual arts and literature. By conflating notions of the public and private, creating uncanny scenarios, playing with language and notions of persona the Tall Tales artists create pathways and make accessible difficult subjects. The programme will create a vehicle via which their collective stories and voices can be heard. The project will launch in London across Freud Museum London, Swiss Cottage Library & Gallery and the Tavistock & Portman Centre, then travel to Touchstones Gallery and Museum & Rochdale Central Library, concluding in Scotland at Glasgow Women's Library. Tall Tales will further exist as on platform, with artist-writing and publishing with Akerman Daly.
