Description
Striking Women was put together by the Berlin artist, Latifa Sayadi, with contributions from women all over the world. It gives special reasons for every viewer to admire it as a living salute to smithing women surpassing all countries, continents, styles, methods, and concepts.
Latifa Sayadi is a Tunisian/German artist blacksmith and sculptor based in Berlin, Germany. There she runs a workshop where she creates her sculptures and commissioned pieces.
She is also interested in exposing the works of female blacksmith’s. In 2008 she finished and published her documentary film about women blacksmiths, Queens of Iron.
This book is a ‘striking’ testimonial to women’s great contribution to artist blacksmithing!
Hardcover, 8 1/4″ x 10 1/4″, Pages 215, Photos 214
Featured Smiths:
Henriette Abitz
Wendy Alford
Elspeth Bennie
Christin Boyd
Bex Clark
Colleen du Pon
Lisa Elias
Roberta Elliott
Bianca Fattler
Rebekah Frank
Nana Furuya
Sandra Geruschkat
Najet Gherissi
Breon Gilleran
Bethan Griffiths
Mary Hackett
Katharina Hahn
Christine Holt
Annie Jansen-Thielen
Paula J. Jenson
Miranda Jones
Eveline Kesseli
Katja Kleutges
Kristina Kozak
Nancy Linkin
Annabel Liquori
Catharine Lloyd
Shawn Lovell
Ulla Lutz
Corrina Sephora Mensoff
Lynda Metcalfe
Kathrin Meyer
Marsha Nelson
Lauren Osmolski
Laura Parker
Edda Sandstede
Latifa Sayadi
Bex Simon
Kelly Smyth
Kiki Sting
Shelley Thomas
Cara Wassenberg
Orit Winberg
Tessa Wittman
Maja Zbinden-Jermann
Marja Zilcher