British artist Zoë Buckman is known for her multidisciplinary practice, which incorporates sculpture, textiles, ceramics, photography, and large-scale installations through an explicitly feminist lens. Her art explores themes of identity, trauma, and gendered violence, subverting preconceived notions of vulnerability and strength.

In conversation with Deeply Rooted: Faith in Reproductive Justice curator and artist, Caron Tabb, and co-presented by the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute and the Rose Art Museum, Buckman discussed her artistic practice and her 2019 work, According to Grandma, acquired by the Rose Art Museum in 2023. The sculpture, composed of boxing gloves and Buckman’s maternal grandmother’s textiles, honors generational bonds, collective memory, and the tension between aggression and support. According to Grandma is included in the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute’s 21-artist exhibition, Deeply Rooted: Faith in Reproductive Justice, on view in the Kniznick Gallery November 2–December 14, 2023. An outspoken Jewish feminist artist, Buckman also shared how the current world-wide eruption of antisemitism has affected her and her work.

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