400 Women at Edinburgh Festival

 My painting of Maria de la Luz for
Tamsyn Challenger's 400 Women is now showing at The Edinburgh Festival  
Canongate Venture

5 New Street

Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh EH8 8BH

from August 9 - September 9th

Portraits by 200 artists made  in response to the brutal rape and murder of thousands of women in the Mexican town of Ciudad Juarez and, more generally, to gender violence across the globe. The project utilises portraiture by a critical mass of 200. 

 

400 Women

400 Women is an exhibition of new work by 200 artists in response to the murders of women in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. A project by Tamsyn Challenger, curated by Ellen Mara De Wachter.

Each artist was given the name of a murdered woman. Some had a photogragh, others just the name.

I was given the name:

María de la Luz Murgado Larrea Gutiérrez

The first exhibition of all 200 paintings took place at Shoreditch Town Hall fro 12 November - 5th December.

I searched for information about her on the internet and found only an autopsy report. Maria was strangled in a motel room.

I painted her as a Soldaderas, a woman soldier from the Mexican war of independence.

You can read more about 400 women here