{"id":637987,"date":"2026-06-14T09:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T09:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/637987\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T09:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T09:01:08","slug":"norfolk-artists-manspreading-painting-displayed-in-suffolk-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/637987\/","title":{"rendered":"Norfolk artist&#8217;s manspreading painting displayed in Suffolk house"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Miller studied University Studies at West Suffolk College and secured an Art Practice degree in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After graduating, a lecturer invited her to be part of an exhibition that would explore themes of tolerance, resistance and building bridges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She chose the topic of manspreading because she thought it could be &#8220;visually interesting&#8221; and it had been something she had experienced on the London Tube. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We notice it and see it, experience it, but I don&#8217;t feel like everyone is aware they&#8217;re doing it,&#8221; she said, speaking to BBC Radio Suffolk&#8217;s Wayne Bavin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Fair enough, you&#8217;re trying to be comfortable, but sometimes for women if you&#8217;re sat down and someone is making you uncomfortable, you don&#8217;t really get to say anything&#8230; [this painting is] pushing back non-violently.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miller studied University Studies at West Suffolk College and secured an Art Practice degree in 2023. After graduating,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":637988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-637987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}