Ann Batten   

New Zealand/Aotearoa  

The quilt results from a special relationship between two friends-Jill Chrisp, parts of whose story are depicted here, and Ann Batten who crafted it. It is a work in progress. The borders are to be quilted with a Koru design. From left to right, top to bottom:

1. A parody on the threat felt by some when women gather (T-Shirt, 1996)
2. Working with the Mongolian Women’s Farming Association, teaching horticultural skills to families who have relied for a living on a nomadic existence, but through destitution have moved to the city (Photo: Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, 2002)
3. NGO Hiti Tau, founding in 1990, continues the struggle for indigenous sovereignty of the Maohi in Tahiti
4. The women’s health movement strengthened  - the Cervical Cancer Inquiry at National Women’s Hospital
5. Women’s Peace Flight from Aotearoa to Tahiti adding to international and local protests against Nuclear Testing
6. Community development project with the Navajo (T-Shirt, Gallup, New Mexico, 2001)
7. Protest outside parliament for the urgent revival of te reo Maori (T-Shirt, Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand, 1981)
8. An event organized by Te Ha o Te Whanau Trust to celebrate the significance of Maori women to the well being of all Maori
9. A challenge to the ongoing notion that a woman’s primary place is in the home (T-Shirt, 1999)
10. An international movement of people, initiated in 2001, using Feminist Participatory Action Research for social change
11. Hikoi campaigning for effective policies to address poverty and social inequities (T-Shirt, Aotearoa New Zealand
12. Working with the Jordanian National Centre for Human Rights (Photo: Amman, Jordan, 2004)
13. 100 year commemoration of women winning the right to vote in Aotearoa New Zealand (T-Shirt 1993)
14. Protest about revenue being spent on war in a world of impoverished people (Photo: Boston, USA, 2002)
15. Koori efforts to revive art and culture through a cultural education centre