The Handmaid – Anne-Elise Angas UK
‘The Handmaid’ was woven to reflect how Anne-Elise felt in 2019. It was a time when the news regularly reported stories of women being suppressed both at home and at work.
This tapestry is a modern version of William Morris’s ‘Flora’.
But this handmaid is not subservient or suppressed, she is powerful and strong, she holds her garland as a tattoo on her arm to represent power and honour. Embraced by the soft beauty of nature but with the raw, rough graffiti wall in the background. Feminine and masculine qualities colliding in our current world.