Olivia Plender

Memorial for Sylvia Pankhurst, 2024

Olivia Plender is an artist based in Stockholm and London, whose work is inspired by social movements and their histories, and the relationships between gender, power and authority.

Using intricate drawings suspended in mobile form, Plender creates a temporary memorial to Sylvia Pankhurst, whose name is well-documented in social and political history for her involvement with the campaign to win votes for women in Britain.

Less celebrated, however, are Pankhurst’s later campaigns against fascism and imperialism, and the influence of her socialist feminist ideas on the formation of a welfare state in Britain.