Rebecca Ackroyd

Contested Bodies is a group exhibition curated by Marcelle Joseph and Laura Claveria that interrogates and celebrates the performativity of gender as a social construct. It understands gender as a cultural fiction with no fixed, natural or innate characteristics, but as an act that is performed and reproduced at individual, societal and institutional levels. Runs from 25 October 2023 to 6 April 2024 at the Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.

Rugby Art Gallery and Museum presents the first major public display of the GIRLPOWER and Marcelle Joseph Collections in the UK. Shown alongside a selection of works from our own...