Urara Tsuchiya
Polly Pocket series, 2024 Urara Tsuchiya challenges the viewer to negotiate their own physical and emotional boundaries through creating miniature ceramic worlds that we’re invited into. Here we find her exploring her childhood fascination with Polly Pocket toys – a place reassuringly familiar and safe place to return to.The dolls that usually inhabit these fold-up […]
Daisy Blower
Daisy Blower Nesting Dyke series, 2024 Daisy Blower is a queer artist making sex positive, feminist artworks. She creates miniature worlds that carve out a space in which she grapples with the complexity of a queer, feminist life, its intimacy and agency. Here we find ‘nests’ which explore her desire for a place she can […]
Maisie Cousins
Maisie Cousins Walking Back to Happiness series, 2023 Maisie Cousins explores themes of power, femininity and indulgence, often bringing together visceral elements such as beauty and revulsion into a single image where these extremes coalesce. She turns to AI to help her rediscover lost childhood memories after family videos of visits to Blobbyland theme park […]
Adama Dercilia Bari
Adama Dercilia Bari explores Black geographies by focusing on her lived experience and that of those close to her. She finds glimmers close to home, opening up gateways into places where she feels she can be herself. We see the artist interviewing Mariam while she photographs her bedroom, asking her about her what home means […]
Sian Fan
Sian Fan Lure, 2024 Lure explores manifestations of femininity in the gaming world and other virtual spaces. Through remixing a complex array of references from Tumblr, Tik Tok and Anime – to name a few, Lure critically reflects upon the fine line between agency and exploitation, beauty and objectification, representation and tokenism. Interrogating the traditional […]
Dion Kitson
There’s No Place Like Home, 2023 Making work across a variety of mediums, Dion Kitson explores working class values and the world around us with his trademark incisive wit. No Place Like Home has Dorothy’s red shoes from the Wizard of Oz hung up on a telegraph wire, signalling for all to see. While the […]
Farah Al Qasimi
Farah Al Qasimi Desert Dreamscapes, 2024 Farah Al Qasimi explores the unspoken social norms and values imbedded in a place, a moment or an object. Here we find her inventing her own dreamscape bedroom, filled with objects that have significance to her; with outmoded television technology standing next to a high-tech orb displaying up-to-the-minute phone […]
susan pui san lok
One/Hundred, 2019. Ribbons and rope Unearthing ancient histories, susan pui san lok explores ideas of history, myth, collective witnessing and resistance. susan pui san lok explores the persecution of ‘witches’ and refuses to let them be forgotten. She commemorates the unnamed women accused of being ‘witches’ in East Anglia between 1560-1751 with a red ribbon […]
Freddie Robins
‘Cecil,’ 2014, ‘Alice,’ 2016 and ‘Griselda’ 2016. Wool, lace, stone and wood Freddie Robins uses knitting to explore contemporary issues of the domestic, gender and the human condition. Playfully subverting meaning and making, her work disrupts notions of knitting as passive and benign. Freddie doesn’t have to look far for her research, with nearby Wivenhoe bringing […]
Chiara Fumai
‘W.A.R.N.I.N.G.’ 2015. Photography and pen Chiara Fumai’s practice interrogates radical feminism, media culture and repression through performance and works that explore psychic abilities, anti-spectacle strategies and counterculture icons. She creates a portal to marginalised women, who despite gaining recognition through vociferous dissent have since been overlooked. Chiara belongs to a tradition of female psychics serving […]
Leonora Carrington
‘Major Arcana’ Tarot, c. 1955. Chromolithography reproduction. Leonora Carrington was a British-born surrealist painter who lived and worked in Mexico. Biblical stories, Irish fairy tales and Aztec culture alchemically blend to equip her with a unique way of approaching the world around her. Leonora Carrington also asks us to rethink our relationship with feminism through her personally […]
Alice Bucknell
‘The Martian Word for World is Mother’, 2021. Film Working primarily through game engines and speculative fiction, Alice Bucknell explores interconnections between ecology, magic and non-human and machine intelligence. Alice Bucknell uses the idiom of magic as a vehicle to engage with the legacy of colonialism, racial injustice and to empower the de-voiced. As she tells writer […]
Serena Korda
Jug Choir (5 from the series), 2016. Glazed ceramic Serena Korda’s practice spans sculpture, performance and installation – and has ‘world building’ at its core. She reviews historic and mythic narratives through a female lens, reworking them to create her own highly inventive mythologies. Her sculptures predominately adopt the notoriously unforgiving medium of clay, embracing […]
Akinsola Lawanson
Bosode, 2021. Film Akinsola Lawanson is a British-Nigerian artist working with moving image, video game engines and motorised sculptures. Their practice examines relational systems, colonialism, digital technologies and process philosophy. ‘Bosode’opens up new worlds which critique the legacy of colonialism by taking us on a journey into the Yoruba spirit world. Taking inspiration from Nollywood, […]
Juno Calypso
‘Seaweed Wrap’, 2015. Photograph ‘A Dream in Green’, 2015, Film Juno Calypso works with photography, film and installation, creating a female universe of solitude, desire and despair. Working alone, Calypso comments on the construction of femininity. Through her work, Juno creates a universe of solitude, desire and despair – all with an about-to-crack edge. In […]