I have written a blog post for Art UK on the subject of women with swords in art! Read Femininity weaponised: a history of women and swords in art. A little extract here… “Such images redefine what power can look like in the hands of a woman. The armed woman challenges the gender norms of…

I was delighted to take part in the Queer Voices in Museums online symposium on exploring queer history and heritage, in a brilliant Thursday morning session facilitated by Dan Vo alongside Katie Cassels, Family Programmes Producer, National Maritime Museum and Jon Sleigh, Freelance Arts Educator and collaborator with Queer British Art. This was my intervention…

I am proud to have taken part in ‘The World we Built, part of AKT Together Sessions in support of AKT’s essential work in providing support for young LGBTQI people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness: “Queer folklorist Sacha Coward is joined by Dan Vo, Claire Mead andBen Paites to help ‘queer’ a…

Living Beyond Limits: Art and the Limits of Language, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, 20 October 2018 – 3 February 2019  This exhibition is the outcome of my 2018-19 curatorial residency at Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, funded by Fluxus Art Projects, co-curated with MIMA and its constituents. To be queer is to be erased from public…

My first project as Programme Producer at Makerversity was the delivery of the Waste Streams Exhibition alongside its events and workshops, showcasing works by Makerversity members which aim to incorporate and re-use waste as part of their making and design process. You can read the full blog here! Extract: “Making sustainable change possible can feel…

‘Intimate displacements’ was originally published within the catalogue of Art Rooms London 2018, January 2018. You wake up and for a moment suspended in thought you do not know where you are in the world. The components are there – bed, sheets, sunlight streaming through, but their meaning is softly blurred like a smudged scrawl…

If (as the Greek affirmed in the Cratylus) the name is archetype of the thing in the letters of “rose” is the rose and all the Nile in the word “Nile”.  And, made of consonants and vowels, there’ll be a terrible Name, which guards in precise letters and syllables the ciphered essence of God and…

Street art mocks permanence and stillness. Even though there may be a documented trace of a graffiti on a wall, nothing can predict the length of time it shall stay up, whether it will stand its ground for years or barely a night. It could stand the test of time or end up covered in…

Defining where animation ends and where it begins starts with the trickiness in defining what is “animated” and what is not. Is the “illusion” of movement all it takes? Or are there more subtle rules at play? Or is there simply a way to make everything animate itself depending on how you see it? Time-lapses…