Girls have always been under the control of their parents, extended families, communities, and governments, their minds and bodies being policed at all times. The most extreme example of this is the Chinese practice of foot binding. Thought to have begun around...
When I think about girls in museums, in the literal sense at least, my art historian brain automatically sees the classic images of the Mona Lisa or the Venus de Milo. However, my rebellious mind reaches into the depths of Magritte and Picasso where girls are depicted...
December 2016 marks twenty years since six year old beauty queen, JonBenet Ramsey, was found murdered in the basement of her own home. The story itself is tragic and the mystery surrounding her death still remains. Yet, looking at the pictures of this young girl, I...
Walk into the V&A’s Botticelli: Reimagined exhibition and meet the eyes of Uma Thurman, naked and wrapped in her own hair, while winged attendants drape white veils around her. She is a modern-day Venus in a steampunk-esque filmclip from The...
I stumbled across the new Gillette Venus ad campaign purely by accident; it was the sponsored advert before a video I was about to watch on YouTube. Usually I skip these ads but this particular advert caught my interest and I allowed it to play out. What unfolded...
