A pioneer of 1970s Feminist Art, Su RICHARDSON played a key role in revalidating craft as a fine art form. Simultaneously celebrating, exploiting and subverting feminine craft skills such as crocheting and embroidery, Richardson’s home-made objects and D.I.Y. aesthetic stir the unconscious of domesticity and femininity and their mutual implications with humour and dexterity.

Richardson became known through her association with the Postal Art Event that took place in Britain in the mid-1970s. What started as a collaborative project to connect women in different cities through exchange of artworks in the post gradually evolved into a ground-breaking art project ‘Feministo’ and a series of exhibitions and installations around the U.K., including the acclaimed presentation ‘Portrait of the Artist as Housewife’ at the ICA, London in 1977.

This online exhibition features many of Richardson’s key works from the 1970s, presented alongside new pieces created for the show. New works, including one of only four life-size pieces ever created by the artist, were realised at the start of a UK-wide lockdown brought on by the international outbreak of Covid-19, which provided Richardson with a unique period of time to begin making again and offered a revitalised moment of self-reflection, now from the perspective of a 73-year-old woman rather than a young mother.