Women in Sign Painting: Burds of the Brush

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Hot on the heels of events in Bristol and Copenhagen (see BLAG 04), the fourth annual Burds of the Brush will take place in Berlin, 5–7 September. With that in mind, and International Women's Day happening this week, here is Rachel E Millar's BLAG 03 article about hosting the inaugural Burds, and why these events are important for the trade at large.

Rachel E Millar's article was first published in BLAG 03, Summer 2023.

Burds of the Brush: One Year* On

*Now three years.

In 2022, I hosted a weekend sign painters meet called Burds of the Brush in Glasgow, Scotland. In attendance were 44 women and non-binary sign painters from nine countries, and it drew attention to how these spaces are vital to supporting and uplifting those who don’t fit the stereotypical image of ‘a sign painter’.