Are you Listening? Shining a Light on Domestic Abuse in Scotland

Published: 22 November 2022

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Dr Emma Forbes describes her project GlassWalls which uses the medium of stained glass to shine a light on domestic abuse in Scotland.

Dr Emma Forbes joins this episode to describe her extraordinary project GlassWalls which uses the medium of stained glass to shine a light on domestic abuse in Scotland.

Emma talks to Rachelle Cobain about each of the glass panels and the stories they tell us about victim/survivors and how law and society has viewed domestic abuse over the last few decades.

Section of a stained glass window with a pattern of daisies in grass and the face of a distressed women with her hand, on which she wears a wedding ring, over her mouth. Another block in the window shows the sihouette of an adult with two children. Source: SCCJR

The panels are part of a collaboration between the women at the Daisy Project in Glasgow along with Charles Provan and Brian Waugh from Wasps Studios.

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Image: First panel in the GlassWalls project (https://glasswallsart.com/)

First published: 22 November 2022

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