| Description | Art works and posters:
List of Monica Sjoo posters in Drawer 3, November 2020:
-Women have only their chains to loose: Liberation, Screenprint, colour, in blue pen Monica Sjoo, 73
-Emma Goldman: "Women need not always keep their mouths shut & their wombs open", Screenprint, colour, in red pen Monica Sjoo, Bristol 1969
-Women's liberation is coming to Hartcliffe!: come and talk to us and see some films, Thursday 8th July at Hartcliffe Community Centre, 7.30pm. Bring your kids, there will be someone to look after them). Screen print, black and white, blue pen Monica Sjoo 73
-Great Mother Sphinx: picture of sphinx and text. Printed, n.d. (2 copies) (+ copy in folder 3b + slightly different copy in folder 3a)
-Women!; break your silence and demand free contraceptives, easily available, for everyone & abortion on demand. Bristol's action group for Women's Liberation, 1 Apsley Rd, Clifton. Screenprint, black and white, blue pen Monica Sjoo 1970
-Sisterhood is powerful! with image of two women, screenprint, colour, blue pen Monica Sjoo 1971
-Monica Sjoo, 'Gay Women's Group for homosexual and bisexual women meets every Wednesday at 8pm. Women's Centre, 11 Waverley Road, Bristol, Redland, for info phone Midsomer Norton number', signed in blue pen Monica Sjoo 74. 34cm x 43.5cm [note this comes from Drawer 3, but was in Drawer 1, Aug 2019]
-Liberation: The myth: Sex/I am a sex object/Sex sex/Object/The reality Neurosis and Misery. Screenprint, colour, images, blue pen Monica Sjoo 1973
-Smash the cohabitiation ruling: we do a full day's work, housework & looking after children & are entitled to our social secruity allowance whether we are living with a man or not! black and white copy, blue pen Monica Sjoo 72 (copy in folder 3a)
Folder: Drawer 3a:
-Women together. Screenprint, colour, image, in blue pen Monica Sjoo 76
-Lovers. Screenprint, colour, image, in pencil Monica Sjoo 76
-Smash the cohabitiation ruling: we do a full day's work, housework & looking after children & are entitled to our social secruity allowance whether we are living with a man or not! black and white copy, blue pen Monica Sjoo 72 (2 copies, one is labelled in orange felt tip pen Monica Sjoo 1972 (Claimants Union)
-The Government wants to take away our family allowances... image and text, copy, black and white, blue pen Monica Sjoo 72
-The beginning of the end of patriachy: In Bristol Cathedral, Sunday 9 of May singing Burning Times, Monica Sjoo 26/5/1993, A4 sized photocopy. (probably refers to the ordination of women as Anglican priests in Bristol Cathedral]
-Great Mother Sphinx: picture of sphinx and text. Printed, n.d. (on blue paper)
-Women have only their chains to loose, Monica Sjoo 1972. Black and white copy (x 3)
-Poster for Woman Magic, by Monica Sjoo, Beverley Skinner and Marika Tell, Ibis Gallery, Leamington Spa, 12 Dec 1978-5 Jan 1979 (A4 sized)
-Women's crafts & work, Monica Sjoo 1976. (copies x 7, two are green)
-Women becoming, 1976 (copies x 5, 1 is brown)
-Women musicians/women music/women art, Monica Sjoo 1975, copy, black and white (3 copies, 1 is orange and white)
-God giving birth, black and white copy with image (x 2)
-In the beginning there was darkness, image and text, colour (based on a 'sheela-na-gig', Monica Sjoo 1978)
-Sisterhood is powerful, M Sjoo 72, pink colour (2 copies)
-Celebrating the Goddess within us: Woman Magic, with text in German, mention of Anne Berg, Monica Sjoo, Beverley Skinner, Lynne Wood, black and white
-Woman Magic: a celebration of the Goddess within us, Paintings by Monica Sjoo/Marika Tell Batiks/Beverley Skinner and Anne Berg, red copy. With handwritten note 'at The Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, 21 January-2 February. (also a copy without venue annotations)
-Loovers, blue, copy, Monica Sjoo 75
-Loovers, black and white copy, Monica Sjoo 75
-Woman Worker Famer, copy (3 x, 1 is cerise)
-Women's mysteries: the crane dance, Monica Sjoo, 76 (3, one is a copy, one is pink)
-Women cultures of past, present & future: Goddess lunar times, blue, text and illustrations, blue ink Monica Sjoo 80
-Past present?, brown with images, Monica Sjoo 1970
-Freedom: support the national liberation fronts, screenprint, black/white/red, blue pen Monica Sjoo 69
-Contraception free to all women and abortion on demand/Liberation/Every child a wanted child: red and blue screenprint, blue pen Monica Sjoo 70
-Woman power/Women's art: colour screenprint for an exhibition by Monica Sjoo and Beverley Skinner, Bower Ashton Art School, Bristol, 6-27 March [now University of the West of England], n.y. (2 copies, with different colour schemes)
-Woman power, screenprint (partial image)
-Magical Fairy Queen Moon Goddess of Life, death and rebirth/immortality: black and white copy, Full Moon, July 1985, Monica Sjoo
-She the joyous spiral, she the serpent-power, she the moon, she the mother of all, black and white copy, blue pen Monica Sjoo 78
-Diana the Moon, orange copy print Monica Sjoo 1976 (2 copies)
-Woman magic: paintings & batiks by Beverley Skinner, Monica Sjoo, Marika Tell, 12 Dec 1978-5 Jan 1979, Ibis Gallery, Leamington Spa
-Exhibition poster: Monica Sjoo, Kebele Cultural Project, Easton, Bristol, BS5 6JY, September 2001
-10 copies of various of these posters in one bag
Also in this folder:
Women's Voice, blank sheet for adding headlines
Sheela-na-Gig, gig at the Assembly Rooms Glastonbury, by Dragon in the Belly, Saturnday 29 May n.y. (with sheela-na-gig image)
Folder: Drawer 3b:
-Woman/Worker/Farmer/Potter: Liberation, screenprint, colour, images, blue pen Monica Sjoo 1973
-A woman's right to choose: contraception free to all women and abortion on demand, every child a wanted child!. Screenprint, colour, images, blue pen Monica Sjoo 1971
-Collage: with pink paper and lace doily, 'female culture is in the minds....', mounted on the back of part of a wmomen's free arts alliance poster
-God giving birth, black and white copy with image
-Great Mother Sphinx: picture of sphinx and text. Printed, n.d.
-Celebrating the goddess within us, designed by A Berg, Sept-Oct 1982, exhibition in Copenhagen, with Sjoo, Skinner and Tell
Also in Folder 3b:
-Sisterhood is it enough? by Pen Dalton, A0 screenprint, colour, sample (with Margaret Thatcher)
-Today's chauvinist pig is tomorrow's rindless back bacon, by Pen Dalton, 1976, A0 screenprint, colour
-Women are revolting: Women's Posters, Brighton, A0 screenprint, colour
-Sistershow Poster (Jackie Thrupp and Pat V T West), A0 poster, colour
There are also some other Monica Sjoo posters, which have not been catalogued in detail (Hannah Lowery 9 November 2020)
November 2021: In response to the Cop26 environmental gathering in Glasgow in November 2021 a group of activists in Bristol (The Monica Sjoo Cultural Collective, monicasjoocuratorial.com) produced a poster showing a piece by Monica Sjoo (Mother Earth in Pain, 1996) on billboards and at a Bristol demonstration, 6 November 2021. 1 bill board poster and 2 placards. This has been added to the archive, along with paperwork about the project. See also their Instagram campaign, which includes responses by members of the Sjoo family, activists and others.
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