Patrick Taylor Artist

THE 'WOMEN OF AGE' EXHIBITION at BL6 Studios from 2nd to 11th October is about older women whose lives were shaped by a time when social conditions offered women fewer choices, less independence and fewer opportunities, and about what can happen when, later in life, they refuse simply to accept that.

It asks whether women can still step beyond what constrained them and claim, at last, something closer to the lives they were born to live. The pictures express older women as vivid, individual people with names — reflective, humorous, vulnerable, sensual, defiant, hopeful — and suggest a sense of a life beyond the frame.

The exhibition is in aid of Fortalice, a domestic abuse charity in Bolton.