Newington Green Meeting House
Artist in residence
Autumn 2025
Supported by The Grand Camp Maisie Fund
In Autumn 2025, I was artist in residence at Newington Green Meeting House this autumn 2025, supported by the Grand Camp Maisie Fund.*
During my residency I developed the performance Gen S28: Press Up / Fold In, building on research over the past two years and coinciding with my solo exhibition at the Women’s Art Library, Goldsmiths (Sept 29 - Nov 7th 2025.)
The project explores the Section 28 laws in effect from 1988-2003 which ‘prohibited the promotion of homosexuality’, and artworks made around this time which might relate to these laws.
Continuing my reflections on what it means to grow up under a law without knowing it (having been born in 1989), I have been meeting people of different generations impacted by Section 28 and delving into and further crafting the form of this performance work in the Mary Wollstonecraft room at the Meeting House.
*The Grand Camp Maisie Fund was created by the will of the late LGBTQIA+ leading gay rights campaigner activist and journalist Andrew Lumsden. New Unity at Newington Green Meeting House is grateful to be awarded support for this residency and for other projects curated by independent producer Nikki Tomlinson and New Unity’s General Manager Nick Toner, to be announced in coming weeks. Content produced and published by us does not necessarily reflect the position of the Grand Camp Maisie Fund. Content produced and published during the residency does not necessarily reflect the position of the Grand Camp Maisie Fund.
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Images:
Studio portrait with book as shelter, 2025, courtesy of the artist.
'Hard Stance/Soft Stance/Straddling', Ink on paper, 2025. Image courtesy of the artist.
Newington Green Meeting House, New Unity website.
Grand Camp Maisie Fund Logo, design by David Shenton.
Background: studio work-in-progress image from residency period.