In 1976, JasonSmith, along with Donna Cross, Christine Poland, and Nina Dawidowska, formed "a women-only art studio-gallery ... called Nga Tamahine Marama—the daughters of light, sun, moon and stars." Located in Wellington, it was established with the aim of encouraging "women to work according to their own way of seeing things, based on the premise that men and women view life from very different perspectives [because] in a male-dominated world, women's different insights and different kinds of creativity are too often scorned by the male critics." Hens' Teeth likewise included many sketches that involved the "deconstruction of gender on stage," as theatre historian Hannah Banks said with regard to regular acts involving irony resulting from cross-dressing characters.
