Artist
Now You See Me: a collaboration with Liz Orton
Artist’s CV
Recent:
Artist in Residence, the Women's Art Library (WAL) - 2016 - 2017 Researching the archive and dialoguing with artists represented there; making new work, including:
An Intimate Tour of Breasts, London & Birmingham -
Tour guide for a walk taking in high street and high art, tea rooms and fitting rooms, exploring the mythologies and commodification of breasts throughout history to the present day. (Walking Women Festival, Somerset House, July 2016; Still Walking festival, Birmingham Sept 2017; Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery commissions, April ’18 & March ‘19; Peterborough ‘19; Liverpool ‘19)
Truth is Beauty - Single-breasted life modelling monologue. (Feminist Library; WAL; Loughborough University, 2018; Ministry of Justice, March 2019; Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery as part of Women. Power. Protest. 2019.)
Time & Space residencies Metal, Southend-on-Sea 2018; Metals Peterborough & Liverpool, 2019
Liverpool City - fly poster campaign 2020
Daylighting - Wellcome Collection, Bloomsbury Festival, Oct 2018
Selected Exhibitions
One-person:
All of Me - Albany Empire, 1987
One Girl’s Adventure - Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, 1992
Metro Derby, 1993
La P’cera, Almeria, Spain, 1997
Watch This Space: Goldsmiths College, 2018
Commissions:
Camerawork, London: Imaging the Future; Women and Science Fiction (1988); Silent Health (1990, touring UK/Ireland 1991-93)
Walsall Museum and Art Gallery: Confrontations, 1992
Ikon Birmingham: A Search for Self (touring 1992)
The Billboard Project, Birmingham, 1993
Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery: Our Bodies Ourselves (touring UK 1995)
Liverpool Biennial: Sweet Violence. Workhaus, 1999
Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool: Works of Artifice: Makeup Uncovered, 2000
Selected group shows:
Me Myself I, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford 1988
Art Beyond Barriers, Frauen Museum, Bonn, 1989
The Bottom Drawer, Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery, (touring UK 1992)
Viewfindings: Women Photographers, Landscape and Environment, Newlyn Orion Gallery, Penzance (touring UK 1995)
Pharmacopoeia, British Museum, 2003 (permanent collection)
Visual Poetry, Poetry Café, London 2020
Work as Artist
