Once Women Won the Vote
MARIE COOK, DANIELLE O’BRIEN AND FRANCIS VAN DER MARK
Once Women Won the Vote commemorates the women’s suffragette movement and an 1891 petition which called for Victorian women to have the same voting rights as men.
Warrnambool had a particularly high percentage of its women sign the petition, which was nicknamed the “monster petition” due to its size.
Created in 2018, the mural was part of a larger exhibition (also called “Once Women Won the Vote”) at the Warrnambool Art Gallery.
The project has been made by possible by the generous support of Women’s Health and Wellbeing Barwon South West, Warrnambool City Council, The Victorian Women's Trust, Her Place Women's Museum Australia and Dulux Warrnambool.