SICKly SWEET REVENGE
In May–June 2025, I co-curated, produced and programmed Sickly Sweet Revenge with artist Miranda Pissarides. The exhibition, held in partnership with Hypha Studios, Marble Arch, London, was accompanied by a public events programme spanning three weeks, it included talks, workshops, performances and hosted the first Silver Press Literary Labs.
The exhibition featured the work of Lolly Adams, Ornagh, Sharon Le Grande, W.H.Y., Delia Detritus, Miranda Pissarides, and myself. The artworks included paintings, sculpture, sound, XR, VR, performance, installation, photography and drawing.
The exhibition explored the notion of uncategorisability in relation to femininity, at a moment when ideas of the monstrous, the abject, and vulgarity seemed to be resurfacing in public discourse within the visual arts. Its title was drawn from a quote in Jean-Paul Sartre’s Being and Nothingness: “Slime is the revenge of the In-itself. A sickly-sweet, feminine revenge which will be symbolized on another level by the quality ‘sugary.’”
The exhibition and events programme brought together artists, writers, publishers and cultural programmers whose work engages with form, (im)materiality, body and being under the impetus of revenge. An impulse felt amongst all participants especially given the weight of the UK Supreme Court’s judgement on the meaning of “sex” made in the Spring of 2025.
Exhibition information including, full list of works, floor plan and artists’ biographies.