Gray Struggling Apron

Gray Struggling Apron 1983-4

76.5cm. x 56cm. 30In. X 22in.
BFK Rives
Monoprint
Photo Credit Bernard Clark

Exhibitions
The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa Ontario, 1985, travelled to Mount St. Vincent University Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia 1986.
Kingston Public Library, Kingston, Ontario.

Collection
The Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario. Gift of Mary E. Rawlyk.

Notes
This striped apron was printed from its impression in grey ink on the arborite surface. The ties were arranged in a bow above the skirt area. The hands were printed from folded and inked paper shapes. The dark background was added later from inked card around a block out stencil.
The colour gradations were added from small inked cards that were printed through stencils.

The arrangement of this apron is intended to communicate the struggle involved in finding time for art or other interests, in an exploitive situation where the government places no economic value on housework and child care and training in the home.