Cecilia Bonilla | Jemima Brown | Annabel Dover | Kate Lyddon | Hollie Miller | Cherelle Sappleton | Kate Street 

Working across a differing set of practices, they summon the feminine protagonist to construct their own screenplay within the gallery – refusing to play the victim and instead disturbing the known and expected.

The show channels the gothic and surreal imaginings of authors such as Angela Carter and Margaret Atwood through its dark humour to touch upon real world concerns associated with the feminine, or the label of. Woman embodies no set concept: through her the passage from hope to failure, hatred to love, good to bad, bad to good takes place ceaselessly. However she is considered, it is this ambivalence that is the most striking.’ (Simone de Beauvoir).

Give Away Your Relics aims to shape-shift between real and imagery to explore such complexities and carve out a new set of narratives and attitudes around the feminine.

PV: 22nd Oct, 5-7 pm

General opening times:

23rd Oct-30th Nov 10 am- 5 pm

https://www.uca.ac.uk/events/galleries/give-away-your-relics/