The Women Create International Virtual Museum

While women’s museums are actively witholding, withdrawing and censoring actual women’s history, including their own diaries and pieces of work from their own lives, such as the case of the Glasgow Women’s Library, we are creating a virtual space (for now), for these beautiful pieces to thrive, and the women who made them to be acknowledged.

This space is dedicated to the women who have made a significant, impactful artistic and/or creative contribution, be that in art, dance, music, theatre, art activism, ceramics, banner making, videography, infographics, flyers & leaflet creation, and more besides. Where other organisations suppress and censor women they don’t like, we want empirical contributions from women if they matter to the greater creative causes of Women’s Liberation, women’s sex based rights, and women’s freedom of thought, conscience and expression where they fight to be seen as human beings, such as in Iran and Afghanistan.

Our first exhibition curated by Claudia Clare was titled “The Real Revolt” by founder Victoria Gugenheim for a reason; “Revolting Women” at the Tate did not capture the authenticity of women’s fight to be free. Women Create did. Alongside Greenham Women, WCI platformed sex realists, women artists who had left the sex trade, Jewish artists, apostate artists, topless activists, and women who had been fighting against theocratic repression their entire lives. Many of these women would not have made the curatorial cut at the Tate.

It’s time to change museum culture for good.

Use our contact form to nominate an artist you believe should have a place in our virtual museum.

Caren Garfen “Mourning Light”

“On the morning of 7 October 2023, Hamas terrorists carried out a massacre at Kibbutz Be’eri, killing and abducting residents. A total of 101 Israeli civilians were murdered, including peace activists, children and one infant.  Additionally, 32 hostages were taken. 

Mourning Light has been created in the form of a flattened box, reflecting the style of boxes that hold memorial candles traditionally used to honour the memory of those who have passed away. The artwork is hand stitched with the names of those murdered on that day, serving as a devastating memorial to the victims.