April Kirkwood

This performative and evolving autobiography surveils and cannibalises my body as a labyrinth; exploring territories of the Monstrous-Feminine and transitory stages of becoming through cycles of life, death and decay and metamorphism. Spectacle, abjection and the grotesque are nested deep within my practice, together incubating the shedding and regeneration of different bodily selves. Parthenogenesis and asexual reproduction have become metaphors within the work that allow me to mash notions of fertility, ritual, destruction, alchemy, mythology and religion.

:interested in collaborative movement work, body works, artistic direction, performance, installation.

-Winner of UWE's 'Action and Innovation Scholarship', awarded £1000 to develop my Read More >