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(19914 – 1966) I have wanted to visit the Tate Modern for a while, but just haven't found the time. Yesterday I made it! The reason I so wanted to go was to see a major exhibition of multimedia artist Australian Emily Kam Kngwarray. Kngwarray was born around 1914 in the Sandover region of Central Australia, her life spanned some of the most dramatic changes that Aboriginal peoples from these remote regions faced in the [...]

This series of prints explores the naturally occurring cyclical repetition of nature and women's bodies; and why they seem problematic to the patriarchy which continues to suppress and defile these ‘unknowable bodies.' “The unseen rhythm of nature and the marking of time, now counted out monthly; the drum-beat of time bloodily, viscously and painfully marked by a mysterious power imposing its own temporality”.Death's Secretary by S.F. de Rosa Work began in July 2024 following a personal health [...]

The Oxford Concise Dictionary: 9th Ed. Definition of Taxonomy: the scientific study of classification, esp. of living and extinct organisms. As a graduate of a Photography degree my work has attempted to explore some of the fascinating theories regarding the photographic image – an almost magical process which captures the play of light and dark occurring uniquely in just one moment of time. It has come as a surprise to me that since the first [...]

I like getting into a freshly made bed and to feel the cool, crisp, smooth sheets under my body. I wonder why touch has a strong effect on how we feel? I also wonder why the term ‘to be touched' should imply madness? Experience is most often mediated through the senses and our largest organ is our skin and it is the place where we meet the world, and the world meets us; to [...]

The term Cyborg applies to an organism that has restored function or enhanced abilities due to the integration of some artificial component or technology – this might not always involve human-machine integration but can conceivably be any kind of organism like animal-machine coupling. Cyborgs include not only glamorous bodies of high-tech jet-fighter pilots, athletes (think of Oskar Prestorius) and film stars, but also the anonymous masses of the underpaid, digital proletariat who fuel the [...]