Sexual Assault Awareness Month Banners

A collaboration with Loughborough Students' Union, Loughborough Women's Network and artist Charlotte Tupper

In April 2023, LU Arts invited artist Charlotte Tupper to create an artwork that will make visible important issues around students’ rights and sexual harassment.

The aim of the project was to create text-based artworks that raise important issues as part of Sexual Assault Awareness Month.

Designed and produced with students from Loughborough Women's Network and Creative Arts courses, the final text-based artworks include a series of rhetorical questions, informed by conversations throughout the workshops. The artworks aim to be interactive, provocative and reflective in their approach, inviting the viewer to pause and evaluate and question their own knowledge and understanding.

Artist workshop with Charlotte Tupper and Loughborough Womens Network
Charlotte Tupper leading the first Loughborough Women's Network workshop
Loughborough Womens Network making painted protest banners
Loughborough Women's Network making painted protest banners.

The final work produced from the workshops 'Are You Being The Best Version Of Yourself Tonight?' and 'Who's Looking Out For Who Tonight?' form a legacy of the project, with their visibility at Loughborough Students' Union FND club night underlining the project and asserting students' rights around sexual harassment.

A sequined banner on a wall in a purple lit club room saying Are You Being The Best Version Of Yourself Tonight
'Are You Being The Best Version Of Yourself Tonight?' Charlotte Tupper & Loughborough Women's Network - 2023
A green sequined banner on a white wall saying Whos Looking After Who Tonight
'Who's Looking After Who Tonight?' Charlotte Tupper & Loughborough Womens' Network - 2023

About the artist

Charlotte Tupper is a multi-disciplinary artist specialising in textile art with a particularfocus on a participatory approach to working.

Charlotte has co-ordinated projects which are heavily shaped by community exchange, social connections and a collaboration of ideas and enjoys working in a variety of settings from care homes to refugee camps, museums to international festivals.

Her artistic practice explores the role of legacies and relics as a means of proving one’s existence. She is fascinated by the choices we make and what we choose to leave behind.

Projects include Blue to Green with City Arts, ‘Are You The Future You Envisioned?’ with Nottingham City Council and local youth services, ‘No Wrong Way’ with The Hub in Sleaford, ‘Build Create Play’ with Primary and ‘The More We Talk The Easier It Is’ with Derbyshire Sexual Health Services and secondary schools across the county.

Charlotte is an Associate Artist at Nottingham Contemporary.

www.thetuppermuseum.com