Idle Women

Idle Women is an arts, environment, and social justice collaboration ​founded by artists in 2015.

Idle Women create artworks which are spaces: a boat, a garden, a rave, a website. Our works are sculptural, site-specific and contextual. They are created through social justice collaborations and built to last, to be animated and inhabited by women.
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Our projects reach for something beyond the horizon, creating transformative spaces for women that can't be cut, closed or taken away.

Ether

On the October full moon of 2026, we swapped out our portfolio website for an artwork, Ether (2026 – ongoing), created in collaboration with Jazmin Morris and Rifke Sadleir.

A standardised portfolio website places the finished artwork at the centre and the women who made it possible at the edge. Our work is relational and this website recognises the importance of every woman who has collaborated with Idle Women to create new work and new meaning as well as everyone who supports women to continue to create new work.

How to Navigate Ether

To view projects by Idle Women, press ‘✿ projects’. To link to women who have collaborated to create these projects, press ‘❀ web ring’. You can also choose to ‘● grow a seed’ and become a supporter of future collaborative works. If you would like to view how many seeds have been planted so far, select ‘❁ supporters’.

This relational network of projects, women and supporters is made up of many small particles that together create an image of the moon’s current phase. Select ‘Idle Women | Ether’ at the top of the page at any point to moon gaze.

There is an option to ‘view list,’ which allows you to browse the projects in the web ring in a list form. We recommend using list navigation when browsing the ring on a touchscreen.