Walking On Eggshells

(2 mins 30s – sound on!) Video of live performance, which took place at Ruup & Form Gallery, London, 26th May, 2024. The Video was shown as part of the Vice & Virtue show, curated by Claudia Clare. (It was…

Euphoria

This is an installation centred around Breast Binders. I worked on it for around 18 months, on and off, so it’s nice to see it come to fruition. Breast binder 1: pink, white, and blue sequins trace mastectomy scars on…

Being Kind

short 1m video work (sound on) 2024 We know the people who exhort us to ‘be kind’ on social media are also those most likely to behave in a conspicuously sociopathic way. They tend to be the self-same authoritarians trying…

I Applied for the Wellcome Trust £211k DEI Job!

Shortly after cancelling its own exhibition for being ‘racist, sexist and ableist’, Wellcome Trust advertised for a DEI role paying £211k (a substantially higher salary than their CSO). Such a role is just up Con-She’s street – so I applied:…

A Manifesto for Humans: On Art, Writing, and Life.

As in art, so in life.  Freedom of artistic expression is democracy’s canary in the coalmine. We need to remind ourselves, in a new era of chilling effect, where artists increasingly censor themselves: how to make art, how to live…

Inclusion

‘Inclusion’ is a piece of facial ‘jewellery’. Reminiscent of a scold’s bridle, it binds the woman’s whole face. It is adorned with girly beaded lettering spelling the words that replace ‘woman’ and ‘women’ in contemporary society, e.g., ‘cervix haver’. The…

Identitarian Neon

“It’s cool to be oppressed” is poking fun at the increasing recourse to a kind of identity-based points system used to dictate whose voices we might hear, as an index of how oppressed they are deemed to be. This drives…

Writing etc.

My critique, for The Critic, of The Social Model of Disability Quote in The Telegraph (cheeky archive version)