Infinity to the Power of Women

The terror ot it
Waiting for the street to fall silent
For the shadows to retreat
beneath the eaves
And then stepping out
Banners unfurled
To meet an uncertain destiny

It’s never safe
This freedom
Targets easy
Prey
And we
The preyed upon
Hoping the drum beat
Will bring us home

Shui-Lyn White

  • An abstract digital collage of a person on a motorcycle, with handwritten notes, red dots, and various textures overlaid.

    Through the veil of history (Remembering Alice Victoria Kinloch)

    Mixed media on 300gsm Hahnemuhle etching paper 96x78cm.
    Artists Shui-Lyn White and Christiaan Diedericks

  • Abstract mixed media artwork with sketches, paint splatters, and handwritten text, featuring a woman's profile at the bottom left and a face in the center.

    Beauty of the heart (Remembering Charlotte Maxeke)

    Mixed media on 300gsm Hahnemuhle etching paper 96x78cm
    Artists Shui-Lyn White and Christiaan Diedericks

  • A mixed media artwork featuring a vintage black and white portrait of a woman in a hat, surrounded by abstract scribbles, paint splatters, and handwritten notes.

    Phoenix rising (Remembering Cissie Gool)

    Mixed media on 300gsm Hahnemuhle etching paper 96x78cm
    Artists Shui-Lyn White and Christiaan Diedericks

  • An abstract black and white painting with sketches of people, airplanes, and cityscape, alongside a colorized portrait of a smiling woman in the lower left corner.

    Twenty thousand tears (Remembering Dulcie September)

    Mixed media on 300gsm Hahnemuhle etching paper 96x78cm
    Artists Shui-Lyn White and Christiaan Diedericks

  • A collage featuring a black and white photograph of a street protest with a large crowd, a vintage portrait of a woman reading, abstract red crosses, and text including the word 'PRETTYUA' and a sign that reads 'WHITE AREA BLANKE GEBIED.'

    The birth of the Black Sash (Remembering Jean Sinclair)

    Mixed media on 300gsm Hahnemuhle etching paper 96x78cm
    Artists Shui-Lyn White and Christiaan Diedericks

  • A mixed media artwork features a portrait of an elderly woman with glasses, surrounded by artistic elements, including a colorful crown-like shape above her head, stitched outlines, and abstract brushstrokes in black, white, and red.

    Medicine woman (Remembering Dr Kesaveloo Goonam)

    Mixed media on 300gsm Hahnemuhle etching paper 96x78cm SOLD
    Artists Shui-Lyn White and Christiaan Diedericks

  • A mixed media artwork featuring a portrait of a woman with handwritten text over her face, surrounded by abstract splashes, scribbles, and textured layers on a pink and white background.

    Letters from Nel (Remembering Lilian Ngoyi)

    Mixed media on 300gsm Hahnemuhle etching paper 96x78cm
    Artists Shui-Lyn White and Christiaan Diedericks

  • Mixed media collage featuring a woman in an orange floral dress, black abstract figures, handwritten and typed text, and various textures, with blue highlighted text and small photographs.

    Lady of the law (Remembering Victoria Mxenge)

    Mixed media on 300gsm Hahnemuhle etching paper 96x78cm SOLD
    Artists Shui-Lyn White and Christiaan Diedericks

Artist notes:

This journey like most journeys began quietly and inauspiciously. It began with an invitation to the Women in Art Biennial and with the question asked of each participating artist: what is your experience as a woman in the art world? A question that opened a door of inquiry and awareness.

I realised what had been there to see all along; the absence of women in art history. This was not because women were not artists, but because history did not acknowledge or record their contributions. In many of today’s art museums, women artists are overwhelmingly absent. Still.

Yet this startling absence of women in the human story is not limited to art; it is there in all our recorded histories. Not only did patriarchal societies across the globe make it difficult for women to develop and contribute their talents, those few that broke the gender barriers - a remarkable achievement by a remarkable few - soon languished uncelebrated, their stories omitted and eventually, forgotten.

Today, these remarkable women are being rediscovered, and restored to us. It is a crucial restoration to the story of humankind because without their presence, it might be easy to believe that women are less talented, less contributing, less important, less deserving; that women are less. It is an imbalance that needs attention; for the human species to flourish, it needs everyone to contribute of their presence, equally.

Infinity to the Power of Women began as a discussion on how to contribute to returning women to their rightful place in our story. The story of Homo Sapiens. The story of us. It seemed natural to start with the women who dedicated their lives to establishing a democracy in South Africa. Women who sacrificed, who fought, who shifted the tides of history. It is to them we say, there will always be someone to remember and to offer gratitude. Always someone to tell the whole story.

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