About this artwork
For over ten years Catriona Grant has worked with her mother and her aunt. Here she raises the question of how women of their age are seen by society: 'After pension age, women are expected to take on a very pedestrian role, to become almost invisible.' The picture reveals how unfounded the cliché is: the cow, which nurtures with milk, has become an insult, where it might as easily have been a compliment to maturity and strength. Think of the holy Indian cow!
Updated before 2020
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artist:Catriona GrantScottish (born 1964)
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title:Cows
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date created:1994
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materials:Silver gelatine print
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measurements:37.60 x 48.20 cm
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credit line:Purchased 2001
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accession number:PGP 272.5
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Catriona Grant
Catriona Grant
Catriona Grant has studied Fine Art Photography at Glasgow School of Art and Electronic Imaging at Duncan of Jordanstone College in Dundee. She teaches at Edinburgh College of Art and works freelance with community groups on arts projects. Her most concentrated project, with which she has been...