Breaking down the South London Art Group's A Woman's Place (1974)

In 1974 a group of artists – members of the South London Art Group – collaborated to produce a large-scale installation-cum-exhibition titled A Woman's Place. This work took place in a house in Lambeth South London, one of a street of squatted premises. The installation not only took place in the house, but took it over too with a series of room-scale tableaux that told a melancholy story of domestic entrapment. This paper will focus on this installation, situating it in the context of women's liberation politics, housing activism and avant-garde art.