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Gap analysis

 * What is the title of the article in which you identified a gap. If no article exists at all, what should the title be?

Rachel Stone. No article exists thus far so I would title it with her name 'Rachel Stone'.


 * Document the gap you found, describe how you identified it, and analyze its impact on knowledge.

I began my wikipedia gap analysis by doing a basic search through google to find some well known or popular feminist artists today. I then browsed through the website results and selected a couple different artists. I picked a couple artists whose artwork seemed very interesting to me and looked them up through wikipedia to see if there were any results and information on them. The artist I ended up choosing, Rachel Stone, had 0 results when I searched her name through the wikipedia website itself. This is when I decided that this would be a good basis for my wikipedia gap analysis. There are a few subjects within wikipedia that may mention a piece of artwork done by Rachel Stone in which case her name will appear, there is no information on her herself however. Not having any information on the artist herself leaves open many gaps and withholds much information. Firstly, it withholds information about a feminists artist as a whole because there is no information on Rachel Stone at all. Second, it withholds information about the impact of Rachel Stone’s artwork and what purpose it is intended to serve. While she has an artwork piece mentioned once within wikipedia, there is no solid information on her art and what goal or statement she had in mind by creating her artwork. Lastly, it creates a gap on feminist artwork nationally as Rachel Stone is from the Netherlands. Learning the impact of feminist artist from places other than the United States is extremely beneficial in our studies because it shows what issues feminist encounter in other parts of the world such as we learned watching about feminists in Africa.


 * Propose a paragraph of new or substantially edited content based on reliable sources. (If you are editing existing content, post the current version along with your edited version, and clearly mark which is which.)

Rachel Stone ( born 1976 in Schiedam, Netherlands) is feminist artist and describes herself as a self-made woman who is said to have similar work to that of Cindy Sherman. Rachel Stone began her art career as a sculptor and did some work with artist Miquel Penso. After events such as the big art festival and having a daughter, Rachel Stone shifted her focus from sculpting to photography where she uses herself as a model in  most of her artwork and often edits them through photoshop creating unique images that one could not capture and create with a camera on its own. Stone states "I had to re-evaluate my sexuality and sensuality, my role as mother, woman and human being in relation to other people, my daughter and the universe. Struggling with these different aspects of me; the mother, the sensualist and creator and the warrior I was left with a flow of images and idea's which needed to be expressed and find their way into the world." Stone is inspired by images that come to her as she ruminates about her relation to world as being a mother. Stone’s artwork can be viewed in The Lilith Gallery, an online non-profit gallery which aims to help promote artists which have yet to be noticed. Stone uses her artwork to portray the hardships that women must go through in their lives such as pregnancy, motherhood and their domestic lives. Stone uses props to help create the messages in her image such as baby dolls which can be seen in many of her pieces such as Drain Me where Stone has photographed herself sitting on a toilet holding a baby doll while many more baby dolls are lying on the floor beneath her. This is similar to her piece Birth Pile where she is photographed sitting on a bed with a pile of baby dolls in front of her. Rachel Stone’s artwork means to be very inspirational although is not very well known and popular yet.


 * List the reliable sources that could be used to improve this gap. (You can use the Cite tool from the editing toolbar above to input and format your sources.)

"The Lilith Gallery of Toronto." The Lilith Gallery of Toronto. Web. 15 Feb. 2016.
 * "Rachel Stone." Zemni Images. 2014. Web. 15 Feb. 2016.
 * "Rachel Stone." - The Lilith Gallery of Toronto. Web. 15 Feb. 2016.
 * "Feminist Art Practices and Political Art - The Art History Archive." Feminist Art Practices and Political Art - The Art History Archive. Web. 13 Feb. 2016.
 * Rachel Stone Photography. Web. 11 Feb. 2016.