Joseph Michael Collins Crawley
Voices of the Glasgow Spinster Flats
Print on fabric
119 x 84 cm
£ 100.00
This tapestry holds many voices of the Glasgow Spinster Flats of the 1950's. It explores the 'Spinsters' as an architectural typology and gives a platform for many opinions and voices...
This tapestry holds many voices of the Glasgow Spinster Flats of the 1950's. It explores the 'Spinsters' as an architectural typology and gives a platform for many opinions and voices of that time. Through extensive research and online community engagement, we can understand the importance of the Spinster Flats and how it shaped many lives in Glasgow of that time. This is a body of research which follows the line of enquiry I am carrying out at the Glasgow School of Art - changing the narrative of the Spinster Flats from what was originally relief housing to essential housing and exposing women's relationship to safety and housing in the city of Glasgow.