Navigating the radically different format of Inside Killjoy’s Kastle, Woolley commends the book’s ludicrous, artful commentary on feminism
Dawn Woolley
Dawn Woolley is an artist and research fellow at Leeds Arts University. Her artistic practice encompasses performance, photography, video, and installation, blurring the boundary between self-portraiture and still-life. She examines neoliberal patriarchal culture using a queer, anti-capitalist lens. It is a form of activism and a feminist critique of representations of gender in commercial and popular culture. Recent solo exhibitions include; ‘Joy and Revolution: Rebel Selves’, Diskurs Gallery, Berlin, 2023; ‘Consumed: Stilled Lives’ Bildkultur Gallery, Stuttgart, (2022); and Perth Centre for Photography, Australia, (2021). Consuming the Body: Capitalism, Social Media and Commodification was published in 2023 by Bloomsbury.
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