The performance 'IT'S NOT EASY BEING A PRINCESS' at Hypa Gallery, marking the opening of 'Uncanny Playgrounds,' curated by Anna Paola Flores, explored themes of identity and self-perception
'SELFITIS' as urban installation in New York, part of 'The Existential Tail' a project organized by 'SaveArtSpace', a non-profit organization, that works to create an urban gallery and spread messages of social change.
'2023-It's Not Easy Being Princesses' and 'Once Upon A Time' are part of the women empowerment art project 'Wonder Women Now' curated by Anne Plaisance.
For the 'Mental Health Awareness Week' I will run a social media campaign inviting people to make the best use of the social-media technologies (SMTs), to give voice to what we think and to our creativity without being victims of homogenized standards dictated by fashions and algorithms.
'I am super well, thanks!!!'', a flash performance reflecting on the happiness imperative forced on us by society and the contradiction between that and this madly challenging period, is part of the 26 Online Performance Art Festival. This performance is in memory of Steven Tilbury, a sensitive and talented friend who decided that all this madness was too much...
'2023 - It's Not Easy Being Princesses' is part of 'Inspirational Women Artists' a group show and silent auction in support of Yellow Door, a charity supporting victims of domestic and sexual abuse. The exhibition and silent auction are curated and organized by ‘a space’ arts.
9 Images of the 'Bag Lady' series are part of 'MIXTAPE no 4', an online group show curated by Cultivate.
This work is divided into 2 parts: social media activism of 365 days and a series of public performances. Ideally I would love to carry on doing the live performances throughout the whole year of the social media activism. The project will finish in July 2023
The Bag Lady appeared 'Inside The Cage' an exhibition and fundraising event curated by Becky Dorgan in support of the charity Mind.
8 Images of the 'Bag Lady' series are part of 'MIXTAPE no 1', an online group show curated by Cultivate.
'It's Not Easy Being Princesses' and 'Girls' World' are part of the women empowerment art project 'Wonder Women Now' curated by Anne Plaisance.
'It's Not Easy Being Princesses' is part of the exhibition ‘HRH Princess Margaret – 20 Years 20 Artworks’ organized by The Ken Griffiths Bureau and curated by Giulia Calvi.
The exhibition will be free and open to the public until the 20th of February 2022, every day from 11 am to 7 pm at 15 Bateman Street, in Soho, London.
For the 16 Days of Activism against gender-based violence campaign, I will be walking around the streets of London.
On the 29th of March the ‘stay at home’ rule will end and it will be the 1st anniversary of when a total of 7 women were killed on one day in the UK by their husband or father. This performance is in memory of all the women who died as victims of femicide.
As part of their 'Sheroes-Revoluciones 2.0' exhibition, Lon-art used 3 images from the 'Girl's World' series to create some mock-ups in order to spark a conversation about the use of art to build awareness about violence against women and children.
'The Waiting Room' series is part of 'The Virus Who Came to Tea', an online group show curated by Roisin Delaney.
7 Images of 'The Waiting Room' series and 'My First Selfie' are part of 'Self', an online group show curated by Cultivate.
#StopTheVirus' is a work involving three 48 sheet billboards hanging in Brighton, Christchurch and Portsmouth from the 9th to the 23rd of January. This work has been created as a response to the open call launched by the Socially Engaged Art Salon of Brighton for 'GASLIGHTING ' an exhibition curated by the artist and activist Miranda Gavin.
'Girls' World - Scream Quietly Or The Neighbours Will Hear -' and 'Girls' World - It's All for Your Own Good -' are part of GASLIGHTING an exhibition organised by the Socially Engaged Art Salon of Brighton and curated by Miranda Gavin. Featuring work by artists who have had experience of domestic abuse.
'The Waiting Room' series is part of the168 Annual Open Exhibition of the RWA of Bristol. Recipient of the Derek Balmer Prize
'Back to Normal' is part of 'Little Voices' a group show curated by Amy Jackson, as part of Kensington + Chelsea Art Week 2020.
10 Images of 'The Waiting Room' series are part of 'Fix Photo Festival 2020' a group show curated by Laura Noble. \judges Choice Series - SHAHIDUL ALAM.
1 Images of 'The Waiting Room' series is part of 'Being Human Festival 2020' a group show curated by Humanising Medicine.
3 Images of 'The Waiting Room' series are part of 'Coronapocalypse!' a group show curated by FUBAR Collective.
My image in homage to the poem 'The Owl and the Pussy-Cat' by Edward Lear, part of 'The Waiting Room' series, is part of The Art Hunt organised by Sweet' Art.
'The Waiting Room' series and the performance 'Back To Normal' are part of the 'Reality and its disorders' group show curated by Degrees Of Freedom.
'The Waiting Room' is part of 'Stay Connected' an online group show curated by Lois Emma Harkin. Starting on the 18th of June 2020.
3 Images of 'The Waiting Room' series are part of 'So Why not Do It Again', an online group show curated by Cultivate.
Event, part of the Feather Dusting/ Future Lusting’s public programme. A dive into art and feminism’s relationship with the internet, using the panellists’ personal experiences as a starting point.
10 Images of 'The Waiting Room' series are part of 'FEATHER DUSTING // FUTURE LUSTING' an art project curated by Kleió Collective starting on the 18th of June 2020.
4 Images of 'The Waiting Room' series are part of '(And with good) Reason', an online group show curated by Cultivate.
The series 'Talking Masks' is part of a live art night on zoom curated by The Nave Collective.
3 photos of the series 'Talking Masks' are part of 'The Great Leveller?' an online art exhibition in response to the Covid-19 pandemic curated by Sweet' Art.
'Princess, Angel, Honey, Love, Missus, Bitch, Whore' is part of Sheroes-Revoluciones Women's Herstory Month Edition, a project curated by Lon-art to draw attention to violence against women.
On the 20th of March during the opening I will present a new performance titled 'The Ideal Girl'. The opening starts at 6.30pm.
3 of my works will be part of the exhibition 'We Consume' group show curated by The Nave.
A frame of 'Congratulations!' will be part of the ArtCan group show curated by Holly Collier, Lisa Price and Rosha Nutt.
For the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence lead by the UN, I will be walking around wearing a sandwich board on the streets of Manchester (25th November), Liverpool (26th and 27th November) and London (from 28th November to 10th December).
2 of the installations of Girl's World and the artivism event '1:16 - Femicide Emergency -', are part of Sheroes-Revoluciones, a project curated by Lon-art to draw attention to violence against women.
For the International Day of the Girl Child 2019 (11th October), 4 of the images dealing with FGM, child marriage, girls' infanticide and domestic violence were stuck around Liverpool.
'Princess, Angel, Honey, Love, Missus, Bitch, Whore' is a site specific installation created to fit the window of 5 Bold Place in Liverpool from 1st October to 26th November 2019 for Art In Windows.
The world's largest arms fair 'Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI)'
will happen in London from the 10th to the 13th of September, backed by the UK Government.
Although this is the largest arms fair in the world it goes almost unnoticed.
Art The Arms Fair run a biennial group show and a series of events to build awareness of this shameful trade from the 3rd until the 13th of September.
I'm very proud that my video 'Congratulations!' has been selected to be shown as part of this exhibition alongside some extraordinary other artists who support this effort.
'Congratulations!' has been selected to be shown as part of Fest Anča International Animation Festival 2019
'Madonna & Child' has been selected for 'The Absurd' group show.
'Congratulations!' has been selected to be shown as part of the 14th ATHENS ANIMFEST 2019
'Congratulations!' has been selected to be shown as part of WAV VENICE AUDIO-VISUAL SHOW 2019
From 1st June to 5th June 2019 Baby T and Lady T will be wandering around London's streets.
6 of the images of 'Girls' World' as part of a 7 metre long gallery window installation, including a carpet of pink flowers, at the Pineapple Black Gallery, Middlesbrough from 11th April to 22nd April 2019.
A 3 metre long, mobile billboard will be driving through London's streets on the 8th March, International Women's Day between 10AM and 6PM.
In light of the severity of femicide, we urge European countries to change their legal framework or at least to incorporate a definition of 'femicide' into their criminal laws which to date no EU Member State has.
In the weeks before Xmas I spread about 50 display stands with free cards for anyone to take. The cards were my contemporary take on the 'Madonna and Child'.
The idea was to spread them randomly to whoever in the hope that they would like them and send them on to others. I also had the luck to find more traditional 'Madonna and Child' Xmas stamps.
'Madonna & Child' was created specially for 'Where Are You in these Interesting Times?'group show.
Installation, performance, activist life drawing hosted by Figuration.
Visual artists on the relationship between their work and violence against women and girls. Speakers Lidia Lidia and Paige Megan Hawley. Event organised by Clear Lines Festival.
For the International Women's Day 2018 (8th March), 5 of the images were printed as postcards with information on the reverse, and about 1000 were stuck around Venice, Sheffield in collaboration with SheFest (Sheffield's International Women's Day Fringe Festival) and London.
3 works of the series 'Girls' World' have been selected for 'Sxrvxve'group show.
16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence lead by the UN, 5 of the images of 'Girls'World' have been printed as postcards with information on the reverse, and will be stuck around London (weather permitting).
On the occasion of the FiLiA conference 2017, the work 'This was supposed to be the European Year to End Violence against Women and Girls...' became an installation.
People were invited to share their thoughts and suggestions in a book.
For the International Day of the Girl Child 2017 (11th October), 3 of the images dealing with FGM, child marriage and girls' infanticide, were printed as postcards with information on the reverse, and about 700 were stuck around London.
'Adam & Eve'
has been selected to be part of the Berlin Feminist Film Week 2017.
'Triptych for Little Girls'
has been selected to be part of Shefest 2017.
Since I started thinking of the idea of 'Girls' World', a series of photos on violence against women and girls, I thought to put them in the street to build awareness. But I didn't do it until I read that Russian politicians and religious leaders pushed through a law decriminalizing beatings of wives or children that result in bruising or bleeding but not broken bones, in order to support “family tradition [1]
[2].”
For the International Women's Day 2017 (8th March), 5 of the images were printed as postcards with information on the reverse, and about 1000 were stuck around London, Paris and Berlin between the nights of the 7th and the 9th March.
[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russia-duma-parliament-decriminialise-domestic-violence-tradition-parental-authority-battery-abuse-a7523461.html
[2] https://www.coe.int/en/web/children/-/russia-decriminalising-domestic-violence-would-be-a-clear-sign-of-regression-says-secretary-general-jagland