Posts Tagged ‘feministartist’
February Dark and Cold
February Dark and Cold, 2019 Meeting Gemma, (not her real name) Gemma is a very young woman – a girl when we first encounter her – 15 years old, being sold for sex on the street in Kings Cross, London. She is obviously in need of shelter on a night such as this. Hostels are…
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Christine Keeler: An Uncertain Pilgrim, 2019 Introduction Christine Keeler briefly became an international celebrity in the early 1960s. She came to prominence because she was being sexually exploited some very powerful men. The trafficker, as he would now be known, that is the man who made her available for sex to these men who were…
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Street Exit, 2019 Street Exit, 2019 60h x 28w cm photo: Sylvain Deleu From: ‘And the Door Opened,’ 2019-23 Street Exit is another of the pots that will be displayed in: Nature & Solitude, March 6th-8th, The Old Prison, Northleach, Gloucestershire, GL54 3JH. The Images on the Pot The images on the outside of the…
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Vanity of the Bonfires Romola George Eliot’s ‘Romola,’ set in Florence in the 1490s, but written in England in 1862, presents a society where public discourse, people’s everyday lives – their social lives in particular – and street politics were strikingly similar to our own. The public mood was volatile. The Medicis had been expelled…
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2 Plus 2 Equals 5 Exploring Censorship in Art, 19202-20202 2 Plus 2 Equals 5 is the title of an exhibition at Not for Sale Gallery in Hackney Wick. The title is a reference to George Orwell’s use of the concept in 1984. ‘The Party’ adopts it as a fundamental tenet of belief to accustomise…
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Pimp State, 2021 Introduction Pimp State is both a bowl and poster. It is a dystopian feminist satire on what I imagine the State would look like under the ‘full decrim’ regime. ‘Full Decriminalisation’ refers to a proposed model of legal reform that seeks to decriminalise men who pay for sex along with all third…
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Feminist Jugs – Sink the Sex Trade! Feminist Jugs I love this picture of the my two new sgraffito ware jugs, photographed together, leading the fleet. Paired up like this seems to inject energy – they could almost be sailing. I’m particularly delighted with the way the handles look. They’re in the shop now. Go…
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Vice and Virtue Introduction Vice and Virtue is the first exhibition I have curated. I am grateful to Ruup & Form for hosting and supporting this new departure which runs from June 20th – July 26th, 2024. The six artists I selected have responded to my proposal that contemporary social justice movements are becoming increasingly…
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A Nasty Piece of Work We’re Women! 2021 Version 1, 38 diam x 16 high cm The bowl ‘We’re Women,’ featured in this post, is currently showing in ‘Feminist Satire, No Safe Spaces,’ @u_jazdowski Castle, Warsaw, until Oct 1st 2023 An earlier version of this piece, a fired clay ‘sketch,’ (private collection,) will also be on show…
Read MoreFeminist Satire, No Safe Spaces – Part 3
Feminist Satire, No Safe Spaces – Part 3 Gender – Introduction The featured pot, Cirucs Acts, is one of 23 pots which, along with 2 huge drawings, and 3 videos are on show at Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, one of Poland’s most prestigious galleries. This my first ever solo show outside the UK. The…
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