2 Plus 2 Equals 5

Poster with text and image of a pot

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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Feminist Satire, No Safe Spaces – Part 3

Ceramic Vase Satire Feminist Gender Sex-not-gender

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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Talk at the Tate

Three women sitting in front of a screen with pictures of a vase

I took part in an ‘art chat’ at Tate Modern on Friday as part of their monthly Tate Lates series. This one was called ‘The L Word’ and the whole evening was a celebration of ‘Queer’ culture – or Lesbian and Gay as I would call it. That would be inaccurate though since, in ‘queer’…

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