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A Feminist Dwelling is constructed as a large labial installation that invites participants into a comforting enclosed space decorated with vagina flowers, through an opening that symbolises the two labial lips. Once inside and comfortable, participants are encouraged to engage with some empowering and challenging audio-visual material related to feminism, and then express any thoughts, feelings, and reflections on a vagina flower to place on the blue shore surrounding the fe

Not One / To Be Two was created, and has featured in all LEP workplayshops, as a response to the marketised and hypermasculine environment of the academic institution. Not One / To Be Two is an enclosed art installation that is exhibited within the clinical and hierarchical spaces of the academic institution. These spaces not only express the corporate institutional processes that capture social spaces and create the conditions for the production of a capitalistic subjectivit

The following are brief abstracts about my sculptures... Smash The Patriarchy Smash The Patriarchy is a feminist reconceptualisation of the classic fairground game, Test Your Strength. This interactive sculpture portrays empowering feminist messages instead of numerical measurements to encourage and invite everyone to have a go and swing it like a girl! Duration Reminiscent of the melting watches in Dalí’s The Persistence of Memory (1931), Duration presents a different kind o

How might we create a kinder culture? Stricter press regulations, more mental health awareness, and acts of kindness are some of the affirmative suggestions that have been made in response to the tragic event of Caroline Flack's passing. This inspired me to raise awareness with the current students I teach, with the aim that we can all work together to facilitate an open and kinder culture at College as well as in wider society. This task asked the students to discuss the fac

On Tuesday 8th October, I had the pleasure of facilitating a workplayshop at Metal at Edge Hill Station in Liverpool. I was invited by Creative Associate Sud Basu to present and lead a workplayshop focusing on the future role of art and artists in the act of public protest as part of a four-day LAB entitled, 'Protest LAB - Act Up'. For more information about the Protest LAB and the wonderful people and artists involved, see http://www.metalculture.com/projects/protest-lab-act

This creative activity is one of the series of games I have created and implemented during my post as Assistant Lecturer on the module PO314: Introduction to Political Theory at the University of Kent (2017/18). By adapting some of the art installations I created for (and contributed to) the Fairground at Tate Exchange in April 2017 (a collaborative week-long workshop by University of Kent, CCCU, People United, ValleyKids and Whitstable biennale), I constructed an interactive

This creative activity is one of the series of games I have created and implemented during my post as Assistant Lecturer on the module PO314: Introduction to Political Theory at the University of Kent (2017/18). Inspired by the Privilege Walk exercise,[1] I designed this activity to show the different social positions that each of my students have that can be seen as head-starts in terms of equality of opportunity. Providing Lego bricks, I asked the students to build a Lego t

This creative activity is one of the series of games I have created and implemented during my post as Assistant Lecturer on the module PO314: Introduction to Political Theory at the University of Kent (2017/18). Deriving from the game Rotating Corpse, this drawing task invited the students to collaboratively sketch a “Political Theorist” (see the images for a selection of samples). With the exception of two out of 50, the drawings depicted the “Political Theorists” as old whi

Smash The Patriarchy is a feminist reconceptualisation of the classic fairground game, known as: Test Your Strength, High Striker or the Strongman Game. This interactive sculpture subverts the traditional version that aims to measure the arm strength of the participant. Instead of presenting increasing numerical measurements that ascend the high striker board, Smash The Patriarchy portrays empowering feminist messages. By incorporating sewing needles and hairpins as functiona

According to Gilles Deleuze (1994), art is an experience that is distinct from the empirical moment. This distinction, Stephen Zepke (2008) explains through Félix Guattari, is conditioned by ‘heterogeneous durations’. These do not obey representational knowledge-claims, coherent narrative frames, or linear temporalities. Such an experience can be likened to what Paul Cézanne (1978) calls ‘iridescent chaos’. Upon experiencing, one can lose the concept of time but still endure