Lakes Alive

Showing embroidered silhouettes on a background of landscape and industry, this unique and intricate banner created by Lakes Alive and fifteen women, represents five important women in Cumbria in the early to mid-1900s. It embodies some of the issues that are still faced by women, including the gender pay gap, gender stereotypes, and ownership of women's bodies.

From the landscape, a striking map of the Watling Street March emerges, a route which saw 50,000 women pilgrimage from Carlisle to London to protest their vote in 1913, a truly inspiring moment in the history of northern women, which the group wanted to celebrate.