Loraine Rutt
Hear Her, 2026
Installation of porcelain Listening Vessels
Individual paired pieces in two parts:
27 x 9 x 6 cm
10 3/4 x 3 1/2 x 2 1/4 in.
Half brick plinth
11 x 11 x 6 cm
4 1/4 x 4 1/4 x 2 1/4 in.
Listening Vessels
17 x 5 x 5 cm
6 3/4 x 2 x 2 in.
Complete installation 1.4m h x 1.6m long
27 x 9 x 6 cm
10 3/4 x 3 1/2 x 2 1/4 in.
Half brick plinth
11 x 11 x 6 cm
4 1/4 x 4 1/4 x 2 1/4 in.
Listening Vessels
17 x 5 x 5 cm
6 3/4 x 2 x 2 in.
Complete installation 1.4m h x 1.6m long
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Hear Her celebrates the victory of the suffragettes in getting their voices, and the voices of all UK women that followed them, heard in parliament. It is also a rallying...
Hear Her celebrates the victory of the suffragettes in getting their voices, and the voices of all UK women that followed them, heard in parliament. It is also a rallying call to hear the voices of all women.
The installation arranges symbols of their struggle and victory presented with each piece geo-referencing the places in Wimbledon where discourse began, conversations flowed, sacrificial prison ordeals healed, and where their stories are stored, celebrated and intertwined.
The complete installation is formed of 11 distinct places that were important to the Wimbledon Suffragette Movement. The exhibition will have six of the most important locations on display.
These are:
1. Wimbledon Common
2. The Village Club, Wimbledon Museum
3. WSPU Shop
4. Lawson Johnstone Meeting Rooms
5. Wimbledon Theatre
6. Dorset Hall
Inspired by the WSPU Medallion Ware Tea Service in the Wimbledon Museum collection, this work pairs porcelain elements that acknowledge the strength, resilience and comradeship of the Wimbledon WSPU. Based on a rolled copy of the suffragette newsletter ‘Votes For Women’, each Listening Vessel is inscribed with fragments of diary accounts of Wimbledon locations and WSPU members. Each porcelain brick, an essential building block of civic society, carries a facsimile message from the stones used by Suffragists to smash windows in protest, which has a contemporary resonance with smashing glass ceilings. The globe picks out in gold the countries where women currently have political parity.
The installation arranges symbols of their struggle and victory presented with each piece geo-referencing the places in Wimbledon where discourse began, conversations flowed, sacrificial prison ordeals healed, and where their stories are stored, celebrated and intertwined.
The complete installation is formed of 11 distinct places that were important to the Wimbledon Suffragette Movement. The exhibition will have six of the most important locations on display.
These are:
1. Wimbledon Common
2. The Village Club, Wimbledon Museum
3. WSPU Shop
4. Lawson Johnstone Meeting Rooms
5. Wimbledon Theatre
6. Dorset Hall
Inspired by the WSPU Medallion Ware Tea Service in the Wimbledon Museum collection, this work pairs porcelain elements that acknowledge the strength, resilience and comradeship of the Wimbledon WSPU. Based on a rolled copy of the suffragette newsletter ‘Votes For Women’, each Listening Vessel is inscribed with fragments of diary accounts of Wimbledon locations and WSPU members. Each porcelain brick, an essential building block of civic society, carries a facsimile message from the stones used by Suffragists to smash windows in protest, which has a contemporary resonance with smashing glass ceilings. The globe picks out in gold the countries where women currently have political parity.