Besides being passionate about painting and interior design outside of the industry. I’m incredibly passionate about gender equality and diversity in all aspects, especially in the advertising industry. Below is some of the work I’ve done to try push for and create balance.
#51days51ways to close the gender pay gap. Due to the current gender pay gap every woman in the UK works for free from November 10th until the end of the year. That’s 51 days. To highlight and help change this fact we reached out to 51 industry leaders such as Cindy Gallop, Laura Jordan Bambach and other CEOs, CCOs, ECDs, MDs and CDs from top agencies, to give us their solution. Then every day for the 51 days we shared them on the SHESAYS social channels.
I started an annual SHESAYS event based around the time of year when the best new graduates prepare to enter our industries. To celebrate, we put six female D&AD New Blood Winners into the limelight and to make sure everyone really remembered them I got everyone to sketch them.
This enabled event attendees to learn a new skill like drawing but also meet and see some great new talent!
The first one was In partnership with GREY London and LARA, and under the tutorage of portraiture Luca Indraccolo
Check out a summary of the work by the six women - Yukai Du, Tessa Noble, Maria Florez, Bianca Richards, Florence Fairweather and Jenny Green.
Event photographs by Ruth Jones.
The 2016 event was tutored by LARA portraiture artist Lizet Dingemans and hosted by Allison Upton and her team at Major Players. The ones to watch that year were:
Rose Scanlon-Jones (Designer) http://www.rosescanlonjones.com/
Emmy Yoneda (Fine Artist) http://www.emmyyoneda.com/
Cai Zhang (Experiential artist & illustrator) http://www.cai.gallery/
Pip King (Photographer) www.pipjk.com
Ellen Luff (Creative / Art Director) http://cargocollective.com/EllenLuff
86% of the industry is white* and that’s ridiculous! What’s the problem and how can we change it?
This was the first in a series of Diversity specific events, where we showcased inspirational people who are at the forefront of getting our industry to open its doors to everyone.
The speakers were:
Laura Jordan Bambach (SHE SAYS founder), The Great British Diversity Experiment
James Hillhouse, Commercial Break
Sue Higgs, & Turly Humphreys, CircleCollective.org
Tracy Whamond, John Dore & Mark Oben-Pepra, OMD Fast Forward Programme
Chris De Abreu, Creative Director @ Iris London
