Cosey Fanni Tutti
Cosey Fanni Tutti is a performance artist, musician and writer. In 1969 she co-founded the art collective COUM Transmissions. Her actions, investigating the self and sexuality within the context of the sex industry, were shown in the COUM exhibition Prostitution held at the ICA in 1976, also the setting for Throbbing Gristle's inaugural live performance. After Throbbing Gristle disbanded, Tutti continued to produce and release music in her own right and under the monikers ‘Chris and Cosey’ and 'Carter Tutti' with ex-Throbbing Gristle band member Chris Carter. Her art has been exhibited in international exhibitions including Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles; Tate Modern, Le Plateau, FRAC, Paris: Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil & Dallas Contemporary Art Museum. Public collections: Tate Britain and Centre Pompidou. Her autobiography, Art Sex Music, was published in 2017 and Re-Sisters: The Lives and Recordings of Delia Derbyshire, Margery Kempe and Cosey Fanni Tutti in 2022.
Jill Westwood
Dr Jill Westwood is an artist, art psychotherapist and researcher. Westwood’s “life as art” work in the 1980s re-engineered and transformed ideas around anti-censorship imagery exploring aspects of sexuality. Her work challenged patriarchal codes by reconsidering power relations and reclaiming her own body and sexuality. Embedded within artistic and musical subcultures, Westwood was in the industrial noise-performance phenomenon - Fistfuck (1981-4). They were one of very few women-led groups in this scene. Exploring taboos, Westwood confronted personal notions of power and aggression fostering transformative processes towards deepening understanding of human struggles. Westwood continues to collaborate across a range of art practices spanning film, performance, writing, and research.
Caroline Coon
Caroline Coon is an English artist, journalist and political activist. She studied fine art at Central Saint Martin’s School of Art, where she carved out a distinctive style of hyper-realist figurative painting, made through a feminist socialist lens. She has campaigned for women’s rights since the 1960s; co-founded Release in 1967, a legal-advice agency for young people charged with the possession of drugs that continues today; and was central to London’s nascent punk scene, managing The Clash from 1978 to 1980. Inspired by feminism and the politics of sexual liberation, Coon’s paintings contest binary notions of gender and oppressive patriarchal values. Her first solo exhibition was held in 2018 at The Gallery, Liverpool.
Reba Maybury
Reba Maybury is an artist, writer, and dominatrix sometimes working under the name Mistress Rebecca. Her work explores the tension between her assumed power as an object of desire and how, through the reality of sex work and gender, she transforms that power into something experiential - men are her medium.
