23/10/2025
This is my piece currently showing at the ‘Resist & Persist’ exhibition 🐦⬛✌🏼 I was honoured to be asked to be part of the show alongside so many talented, dedicated, resilient, funny, supportive, unapologetic and hysterical ;) women/ trans/ non-binary sign painters 🙌🏼 If you are in the area the show is running until November 2nd at The Grateful Gallery in Glasgow . You can also follow the link in the BOTB bio to shop online. 🛒
The caption for my piece explains that the wording choice is originally a quote from Martin Luther King Jr. (as possibly most of you know?) I’ll be honest though I only discovered this when I came to paint it. I had actually picked it up from some graffiti in my home town of Bristol. I thought it was straight from one of the great political minds of the south west😅 Either way! I would always read it and absorb the meaning every time I passed by. The message can be applied in too many ways I need not explain.. In relation to the female energy behind this exhibition though it is a reminder of how recently our freedom has been achieved to be able to work and follow personal passions in fields like sign painting .. I am very grateful I get to see fellow sign sisters producing absolute class work like this ! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
I’m just going to chuck in a recommendation to listen to all/any podcast for anyone who isn’t already on board. It’s so inspiring to hear everyone’s journeys into sign painting. Many of the burds gals exhibiting feature and Lianne - episode gives a particularly interesting insight into painting as a female in the 80/90s .. which is really not that long ago!
The exhibition is raising funds for .infant.nutrition.alliance & so please check out the shop and treat yourself to a sexy original or a lovely lil print. 🪿🐦⬛🦆🐥🐓🦜🦃🦩