The Women's land Army - The lost story of Grace Wallace

The Woman’s Land Army was an organisation that was created during World War One and Two as part of a vital war effort in which women took on new and challenging roles, doing manual labour in farms and fields. These women worked harvesting vegetables and animals to ensure Britain was fed during this time. While the predominantly male fighting army are widely celebrated for their victorious combat and sacrifice, the Woman’s Land army laboured as farmers in the place of the working men who were called to arms, yet were seldom recognised for their hard work. As many women banded together and formed friendships, many women had recalled their time in the Woman’s Land Army as a positive one; they had changed the sexist notions people held while making a positive contribution to the war effort.
Grace Wallace however recounts the parts that are often overlooked; the experiences of being dehumanised, the physical harm, the neglectful treatment as well as harassment as she calls out to the public, questioning why after all the work she and her fellow land women are not given the deserved recognition, to the extent that on remembrance Sunday there is no mention of them.
To visually communicate the experience Grace Wallace wanted to create awareness of, I physically distressed typography in a variety of different ways to give the appearance of a weathered aesthetic and composed the this into a short film that dispels the myth of the Woman’s Land army and exposes the reality as told by Grace Wallace. The type begins as slogans from WLA propaganda posters that express a positive experience, then deteriorates, appearing weather beaten and then finally glitching into the harsh reality as quotes by Grace Wallace.