Migrant Women Project 2018 - 19

Migrant Woman Project The Book of Ruth: ‘ a migrant woman who saved a nation’ is a theological narrative that forms as part of the Old Testament and is the historical and feminist touchstone for the Migrant Women Project. This visual research project is practice-led and collaborative and will explore felt experience, memory and the many side effects that inform the migrant experience. In this instance, an interdisciplinary, creative lens, combined with individual, personal stories of migration blend to provide the content for a series of works of art and a proposed exhibition.   In its essence, The Book of Ruth reveals the plight and resilience of how a foreign migrant woman, alongside the support of female family members, had the capacity to change the course of Judaic history. A key feature to finding meaning and understanding in the text is located in Ruth's ability to effect great change within her adopted community and nation. A major theme embedded in the text is th