9th - 22nd January 2025*

In the UK, in 2012, femicide took the lives of 144 women.

This exhibition honours and celebrates the twelve dozen women, killed in the UK, in the first year of the Femicide Census.

When I began, I knew none of these women, but over the past year, I have come to know some of them a little. I know what some of them looked like, the people who loved them, what they did for a living. Some of the women are virtually invisible.

To celebrate them, I have wheel-thrown a clay vessel for each of them, and filled them with photos, monograms and memorials, and affirmations; some are even scented. No two women are alike, so no two pots are alike.

Pots were assigned by instinct:  a name or face sometimes seemed to fit a particular pot. Often, the youngest women got the largest pots, or the most whimsical. I felt that some women needed shine and colour, some simplicity. I designed a set of small pots for the women over 80, made in white, and unglazed, but with their names worked into the clay.

Each pot is paired with an envelope, most containing a death certificate. Each also includes a polaroid of the contents of its pot.

In the UK, in 2012, 144 women died in acts of Femicide. This is my tribute to them: 

Megan-Leigh Peat, Kayleigh Buckley, Lauren O’Neill, Samantha Laney, Samantha Sykes, Amelia Arnold, Kirsty Treloar, Eystna Blunnie, Da In Lee, Natasha Trevis, Catherine Wells-Burr, Nicola Hughes, Natalie Jarvis, Reihana Rezayi, Tanya Turnbull, Leanne McNuff, Sally Ann Harrison, Georgina Hackett, Rebecca Sessacar, Fozia Ahmad, Saiba Khatoon, Beata Hausner, Rushna Begum, Ksenija Vorosilina, Carmen Miron Buchacra, Gemma McCluskie, Lisa Hoolihan, Bernadeta Jakubszyk, Jade Riley Ward, Sarah Laycock, Corrin Barker, Kelly Davies, Karina Menzies, Janee Parsons, Carolyn Ellis, Claire Holland, Esther Aragundade, Catrina Rae, Louise Evans, Fiona Bone, Sharlana Diedrick, Samantha Warren, Natalie Esack, Shaista Khatoon, Michelle Creed, Suzanne Jones, Angela Crompton, Jacqueline McDonagh, Gaynor Bale, Stacey Mackie, Afsana Kossar, Christine Haye-Levy, Claire Parrish, Catherine Gowing, Charlotte Murray, Charmaine Macmuiris, Claire O’Connor, Razu Khanum, Marie McGrory, Gillian Andrade, Sara Williams, Sarah Gosling, Charlotte Smith, Kim Campbell, Patricia Cairns, Yong Li Qiu, Leah Whittle, Khanokporn Satjawat, Debbie Johnson, Tuanjai Sprengel, Alison Turnbull, Sabah Usmani, Andrea Johnson, Naomi Asante, Janice Smithen, Kim Buckley, Susan McGoldrick, Becky McPhee, Sally Lawrence, Jacqueline Harrison, Paula Clinton, Lesley Caile, Carole Waugh, Annette Sturt, Barbara Yates, Annette Creegan, Mariam Mohdaqi, Julie Davison, Christine Henderson, Deborah Morris, Diana Lee, Jean Blakey, Jennifer Hume, Hilary Milner, Lynda Jackson, Margaret Hobson, Rhoda Youson, Carole Kolar, Marian Stones, Margaret Sheehy, Judith Ege, Patricia Wilson, Lesley Larner, Pamela Glen, Christine Williamson, Alethea Taylor, Linda Sheard, Lynda Brown, Ann Morris, Christine Pearmain, Elizabeth Carroll, Patricia Seddon, Carol Cooper, Irene Lawless, Judith Ann Brierley, Pauline Gillen, Julia Thurgarland, Mary Saunders, Margaret Krawcewicz, Hazel Woolley, Josephine Gilliard, Elizabeth Coriat, Pamela Wheeler,  Eileen Callaghan, Patricia Goodband, Betty Yates, Jane Archbold, Jean Farrar, Margaret Biddolph, Eleftheria Demetriou, Maureen Tyler, Jenny Methven, Constance French, Hazel Bailey, Delia Hughes, Paula Castle, Dolores Smith, Kathleen Milward, Anne Leyland, Hester Mottershead, Emma Winnall.

All Welcome

*Exhibition will open at 2pm on 9th January, and close at 2pm on 22nd January.