Kate Just, TICKLED PINK TO BE A WOMAN
Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide
2023

Tickled Pink To Be a Woman is a bed-sized quilt comprised of seventy individually hand-knitted pink squares, edged with a crocheted black border. Each square bears a black text naming an issue that women around the world still face. The blanket subverts stereotypes of pink as a soft, feminine colour and knitting as a traditional craft form. I created this blanket over hundreds of hours. It is a soft monument to the forms of struggle women endure and the resistance women enact. This is a heavy blanket that offers comfort and truth to power all in one dose.