Summer 2025

Dear Friends,

Here’s the return of my newsletter, which I’ll aim to send out a couple of times a year — not more than quarterly — sharing exhibitions, projects, and what’s new in my work. Thank you for being here.

📕 New book, Sex on Stage
I’m so delighted to share the publication of Sex on Stage, co-edited with Lynn Sally, bringing together artists, performers, and scholars exploring sexuality, desire, theatricality, and performance. Earlier this year we celebrated launch events in both London and New York City: such a joy to share stages and moments with Lynn and some of the contributors: Carolina Are, Julia Matias on Calamity Chang, Marissa Vigneault, Erin Rachel Kaplan on Xandra Ibarra, Ash Hudson-Myers, Ella-Gabriel Mason, Ra Malika Imhotep, Julie Cook (feat Edie Lamort, Kitty Velour, Foxy, Vera Rodriguez, Chiqui Love) Stacey Clare, Emily Underwood-Lee, DawN Crandell, Zahra Stardust, Toussaint Jeanlouis, Sharon Kivland, Anna Brooke, Stacey Clare, Lara Clifton; Tamara Tyrer & Sarah Ainslie on the Whoopee Club, Alexander Millington with Yarit Dor, Julie Harvard & Jadelynn St Dre, and Joe E Jeffreys with Rose Wood.
Read more about Sex on Stage

📰 Two Substack newsletters
If you’d like more of my writing between newsletters, you can find me on:

• Joy Development professional solace for artists
  

• Glamour in Practice insights and reflections on my practice

📚 The Night, expanded second edition, Kickstarter now live
The Night was first self-published in 2022, written during lockdown in response to the murder of Sarah Everard. It explores the pain, pleasure, freedom, and risk of the night and the transformational power of dreams and desires. An uplifting novella, it charts disempowered night-time experiences from The Girl to a fuller self-realisation as The Goddess.

This new, expanded edition will be republished by Peakrill Press later this year, with an afterword, new images, and a more generous design.
The Kickstarter to support this publication is now live: Back The Night

🎨 The Muses Are Watching — Graves Gallery, Sheffield
My new commission The Muses Are Watching, velvet hangings created in response to the Museums Sheffield art collection, is now on display at the Graves Gallery. Hear me discuss the work at an artist talk in the gallery: Thursday 16 October, 1–1.45pm

Thank you for reading
This newsletter has gone out to a mix of old and new contacts, if it’s not for you, please feel free to unsubscribe with no hard feelings. If you’d like to stay, I’m so glad to have you here. And if you know someone who might enjoy it, do feel free to pass it on.

Best wishes,

Allie