Quilla Constance

Quilla Constance (aka: QC) is an artist, lecturer and TV personality.

QC employs androgynous punk-carnival aesthetics and a sardonic demeanour to locate points of agency within hegemonic frameworks of white phallocentric order. QC subsequently stages artistic interventions in clubs, theatres, art galleries, music venues, the street and on mainstream TV.

QC's art practice is interdisciplinary and consists of paintings, lectures, photographs, live performances, costumes and music videos. Her live performance work has been noted for its "unflinching physical narrative performed entirely through breath, posture and non-verbal sounds: panting like a dog, sex noises, then laughter, pure guttural anger, and back again" (Megan Vaughan, The Stage)

QC’s varied art practice also "scrutinises food as a signifying system onto which social class and ethnic identities are mapped out, from fried chicken in cardboard take-away boxes to tea in fine, bone china cups" (Alexandra Kokoli, Van Abbemuseum)

QC's art seeks to question the limitations of categories, boundaries, and contexts to humorous, destabilising, and liberating effect.

QC's solo exhibition 'Teasing Out Contingencies' is currently on view at The Higgins Bedford, Sir William Harpur G...

2004 - 2006 Goldsmiths College of Art: MFA Fine Art (Distinction).
1998 - 2001 Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, University of Oxford: BA (Hons) Fine Art (First Class).

Group Exhibitions & Events:

2020: David Roberts Art Foundation: Broadcasts On Screen - Video Streaming 'Working Lunch'
2020: MOCA London 'Focus Zoom' - Video Streaming 'Pukijam'
2020: 'Confessions:Making a Performance of Yourself' Jerwood Arts, London
2016: '#QC' Symposium, Toynbee Studios, Artsadmin. Funded by Arts Council England.
2015: '(Dis)identifications: Gender as Material' Institute of Contemporary Arts, London.
2014: 'Freud & Eros: Love, Lust and Longing' lecture and screening at The Freud Museum, London.
2014: 'Ruskin Shorts' screening at Modern Art Oxford.
2014 'Visiting Artist and Guest Speaker' - The University of Reading.
2013: 'FIERCE Festival', Birmingham - performance (Funded by Arts Council England).
2013: 'NERD Nite, London', guest speaker and performer at Paper Dress Vintage.
2013: 'Exquisite Corpse Screening + Workshops', Concrete Allotment Projects, Oxford.
2011: 'Turbulent Surfaces', exhibition curated by Kirsten Cooke, Brooke Theatre Kent.
2011: 'You Bloom Music Awards', performance, Cobden Club, London, hosted by Sir Bob Geldof.
2011: 'Blitz Club Reunion' performance held at former Blitz Club, London, hosted by Steve Strange and Rusty Egan.
2011: 'Hackney Wicked Festival' - performance.
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