Slowslowzo creates textile art, performs poetry & writes/draws/prints zines and has been a community artist. Slowslowzo is a member of The Hive Studios, Chelmsford. Forever scribbling in the margins, slowslowzo gained a BA (Hons) in Drawing at Camberwell College of Art (UAL).
Slowslowzo is a woman in the margins, a multi-tasking carer/artist; making art/writing in the fragments of time between looking after her parents, juggling caring, domestic and creative work. The Contortionist, her first solo exhibition of Lino / Riso prints, was shown at the Museum of Chelmsford in (2025).
photo by shameelaphotography
slowslowzo makes zines about mental health and self care. The strangeness of the locked-in environment is explored in Project Risk and the Mad System and Can You Open the Doors to Freedom Without the Keys? And slowslowzo considers survivor politics in Don’t swallow the Hysteriazine!, A shock to the system’ and Sort YR Self Out!
Slowslowzo incorporates poetry (and body tracings) in her textile work, she has sewn the large banner Demonology, and has reused textile scraps for Edges Everywhere. Her current project Hag, includes a silk-painted Hag and paper mache sculpture.
slowslowzo has been a community artist, and exhibited with the following groups: The Hive Artists Studio, The Agency of Visible Womxn, Activate Arts, Fem Ad Lib Kolectiv for C.R.A.S.H.Culture (labofii/ArtsAdmin), SNAG, 73 women, the Shape Arts Open and fans of feminism (London Met).
Fascinated by artists who are on the edge/s, slowslowzo studies the work of the S.I. and the Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination. Artists who make something out of very little; Cecilia Vicuna, Valie Export, Ana Mendieta. Artists whose art is crafted; the Gees Bend Quilters, Candice Lin, and Chiharu Shiota. And reading wildly the writings of: William Gibson, Susanna Kaysen, Luke Harding, Yoko Ogawa, Ben Okri.
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