Welcome to the WAAS

The WAAS is an artist collective formed in 2016 with the purpose of activating women’s art. Principal artists Sharon Bennett and Sarah Dixon collaborate to make live art, performance and socially engaged works.

 

listening/shouting

We listened to stories of birth, as told by elder women and women of the global majority in Stroud District. Out of this listening we made a performance response.

Mundanus Bunting

The Farmer Wants A Wife

The WAAS were selected for a Walking the Land residency at the Gingerbread House, Oakbrook Farm, Stroud in November 2024. We presented our work at Stroud’s Museum in the Park in February 2025.

Creative workshops exploring histories of birth in Stroud - thanks to the National Lottery Heritage Fund

The Baby Makers: Making History 2024

The Baby Makers: Making History – The WAAS and Museum in the Park are partnering to collect histories of birth and reproduction in Stroud, thanks to an award from the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

Display in the National Gallery

National Gallery Research

The WAAS are conducting ongoing intermittent research at the National Gallery, pursuing our interests in matresecence, pageantry, the unseen and invisible forces and activities in the space.