# Felicity Allen ## Posts - [‘Being John Smith, Not Being John Smith’ by Felicity Allen in Discourse, volume 1. Eds. Vanessa Jackson et al. 2025](https://felicityallen.co.uk/being-john-smith-not-being-john-smith-by-felicity-allen-in-discourse-2025/): The anthology Discourse has just come out, published by the Royal Academy’s Discourse group, a beautifully designed eclectic collection by mainly artists and architects. Available £15 from RA bookshop – or contact me. At the beginning of this year, I was knocked sideways by John Smith’s brilliant film Being John Smith and my response ‘Being John Smith, Not Being John Smith’ fitted right into Discourse.     - ['Art’s Otherwised Orphans: Conceiving the Disoeuvre, Recognising Art’s Cultural Mothers' by Felicity Allen in The Missing Mother, Andrea O’Reilly and Martina Mullaney (eds.), Demeter Press, 1924](https://felicityallen.co.uk/arts-otherwised-orphans-conceiving-the-disoeuvre-recognising-arts-cultural-mothers/): Art’s Otherwised Orphans: Conceiving the Disoeuvre, Recognising Art’s Cultural Mothers by Felicity Allen in The Missing Mother, Andrea O’Reilly and Martina Mullaney (eds.), Demeter Press, 1924 - [Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2025](https://felicityallen.co.uk/royal-academy-summer-exhibition-2025-showing-dressing-up-to-be-an-artist-undocumented-2025/): Showing Dressing Up to Be an Artist: Undocumented (2025) - [Looking at Her at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge](https://felicityallen.co.uk/looking-at-her-at-murray-edwards-college-cambridge/): An exhibition of recently collected works including Felicity Allen’s Dialogic Portrait: Althea Greenan, 8 (2020) (shown here alongside Margaret Harrison’s work) and the print series The Disoeuvre: an Argument in 4 Voices (2018). - [INSTANT with Deluxe at Somers Gallery, London, 15 February 2025](https://felicityallen.co.uk/figure-to-ground-a-site-losing-its-system-2021-1205-shown-in-instant-with-deluxe-at-somers-gallery-london-15-february-2025/): Figure to Ground: a Site Losing its System (2021, 12’05”) shown in INSTANT with Deluxe at Somers Gallery, London, 15 February 2025   - [Earthwork with Deluxe at Spanners, London, 27 November 2024](https://felicityallen.co.uk/twenty-seven-2024-458-shown-in-earthwork-with-deluxe-at-spanners-london-27-november-2024/): Twenty-seven (2024, 4’58”) shown in Earthwork with Deluxe at Spanners, London, 27 November 2024   - [Hope is a Discipline, part of Belgrade’s 60th October Salon What’s Left](https://felicityallen.co.uk/hope-is-a-discipline-part-of-belgrades-60th-october-salon-whats-left/): With the And Others collective including Felicity Allen, Carla Cruz, Lily Hall, Helena Reckitt, curated by Lina Dzuverovic   - [Multiple Os podcast with Oriana Fox](https://felicityallen.co.uk/multiple-os-podcast-with-oriana-fox/) - [Acts of Creation: on Art and Motherhood, Hayward Touring exhibition 2024-2025](https://felicityallen.co.uk/acts-of-creation-on-art-and-motherhood-hayward-touring-exhibition-2024-2025/): Curated by Hettie Judah, included Baby II (1989) as the first picture in each venue, Arnolfini, Bristol; MAC, Birmingham; Millennium Galleries, Sheffield; DCA, Dundee.       - [Ruth Smith Gallery Residency, North Tawton, Devon, November-December 2023](https://felicityallen.co.uk/ruth-smith-gallery-residency-north-tawton-devon-november-december-2023/) - [Figure: Concept and Method. Edited Celia Lury, William Viney, Scott Wark, 2023. The publication includes: Figure to Ground: Felicity Allen interviewed by Celia Lury](https://felicityallen.co.uk/figure-concept-and-method/): Figure: Concept and Method Edited Celia Lury, William Viney, Scott Wark The publication includes: Figure to Ground: Felicity Allen interviewed by Celia Lury Click here to download via Open Access or purchase. Watch the 2021 film: Felicity Allen – Figure to Ground – a Site Losing its System, 12’04”     - [Catalogue - The Disoeuvre: Household Solo](https://felicityallen.co.uk/catalogue-the-disoeuvre-household-solo/) - [The Disoeuvre, Household Solo: Felicity Allen, 2022, Edited by Clare Carolin, with essays by Althea Greenan, Celia Lury, Rachel Warriner, design by Wolfe Hall. Shown here, pages 15 and 16 from ‘Household Solo: a corporeal counterpoint’ by Althea Greenan, and pages 18 and 19 from ’The Disoeuvre: intimacy, experience, connection’ by Rachel Warriner.](https://felicityallen.co.uk/the-disoeuvre-household-solo-felicity-allen-2022/): The Disoeuvre, Household Solo: Felicity Allen, 2022, Edited by Clare Carolin, with essays by Althea Greenan, Celia Lury, Rachel Warriner, design by Wolfe Hall. 15 full colour plates, 32 pps, 27×21 cm. Free, £5.00 p+p. Contact: flick@felicityallen.co.uk Shown here, pages 15 and 16 from ‘Household Solo: a corporeal counterpoint’ by Althea Greenan, and pages 18 and 19 from ’The Disoeuvre: intimacy, experience, connection’ by Rachel Warriner. - [Artists in Conversation + Book Launch, 18 September 2022](https://felicityallen.co.uk/artists-in-conversation-18-september-2022/):   The Disoeuvre: Household Mix:  please RSVP flick@felicityallen.co.uk to reserve a place 2.00 pm Denise De Cordova and Jane Gifford 2.20 pm Vanessa Jackson and Moyra Derby 3.00 pm Felicity Allen and Chiara Williams 3.20 pm General discussion 4.00 Catherine Grant, Reader in Modern and Contemporary Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, introduces A Time of One’s Own: histories of feminism in contemporary art (2022) In A Time of One’s Own Catherine Grant examines how contemporary feminist artists are turning to broad histories of feminism ranging from political organizing and artworks from the 1970s to queer art and activism in the 1990s.… - [The Disoeuvre: Household Mix - Press Release](https://felicityallen.co.uk/the-disoeuvre-household-mix-press-release/): Click here to view the press release   The Disoeuvre: Household Mix 20 August – 18 September 2022 Roseville, Ramsgate Felicity Allen, Denise De Cordova, Moyra Derby, Jane Gifford, Vanessa Jackson, Reem Khatib, Jenny Matthews, Chiara Williams     - [The Disoeuvre: Household Mix](https://felicityallen.co.uk/the-disoeuvre-household-mix/): The Disoeuvre: Household Mix 20 August – 18 September 2022 Roseville, Ramsgate Felicity Allen, Denise De Cordova, Moyra Derby, Jane Gifford, Vanessa Jackson, Reem Khatib, Jenny Matthews, Chiara Williams Click here to view the Press Release Weekends 12.00-6.00, weekdays by appointment contact flick@felicityallen.co.uk Please RSVP if you would like to attend any of the following events: Vernissage: 20 August Finissage: 17 September Artists Talks: 18 September Poetry Readings: Friday 19 August, 6.30-8.30 Tomi Adegbayibi Felicity Allen reading The Disoeuvre, a speech and a selection of the Syrian poet Mohamad Kebbewar’s poems David Herd Friday 9 September, 6.30-8.30 3 poets with… - [Do you remember gossip? (Power relations in cultural institutions and what cannot be found in their archives?) in Alina Belishkina, Yana Klichuk, Joana Monbaron (eds.) The educational U-Turn: Who else is producing knowledges in culture?, 2021, Pushkin Museum & the National Center for Contemporary Arts (NCCA), St. Petersburg](https://felicityallen.co.uk/do-you-remember-gossip-power-relations-in-cultural-institutions-and-what-cannot-be-found-in-their-archives-in-alina-belishkina-yana-klichuk-joana-monbaron-eds-the-educational-u-turn-who-else/): Do you remember gossip? (Power relations in cultural institutions and what cannot be found in their archives?) in Alina Belishkina, Yana Klichuk, Joana Monbaron (eds.) The educational U-Turn: Who else is producing knowledges in culture?, 2021, Pushkin Museum & the National Center for Contemporary Arts (NCCA), St. Petersburg - [Royal Academy Summer Exhibition](https://felicityallen.co.uk/coming-soon-royal-academy-summer-exhibition/): 22 September 2021 – 2 January 2022: Portrait of Ego Ahaiwe Sowinski exhibited in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. This work is part of the People Like You research project. Image: People Like You: Ego Ahaiwe Sowinski: Figure to Ground, 2019, watercolour on paper, 76 x 56.4 cm.   - [People Like You: Contemporary Figures of Personalisation](https://felicityallen.co.uk/people-like-you-contemporary-figures-of-personalisation/): 17 September 2021: Presentation and display including a selection of my paintings and new film, at a one-day panel event on personalisation at King’s Place, London, as part of the People Like You research project. We are constantly bombarded with personalised recommendations in advertising, social media and healthcare. These are based on data collected during our conscious and unconscious participation in information sharing. Over the past three years social and biomedical scientists and artists have collaborated on a study funded by the Wellcome Trust to understand how these processes of personalisation actually work. In this one-day, free event, we will… - [People Like You](https://felicityallen.co.uk/people-like-you/): 17 September 2021: Launch of People Like You about the residency with Goldsmiths/Imperial/Warwick research project People Like You: Contemporary Figures of Personalisation. I have made a series of Dialogic Portraits, from which I’ve made the 12-minute film, Figure to Ground: a Site Losing its System. The film is screened on the People Like You website from 17 September 2021. Watch the film - [Exhibition: Harry Pye's R.A. Summer Show, The Front Room, Ramsgate](https://felicityallen.co.uk/exhibition-harry-pyes-r-a-summer-show-ramsgate/): 20 August – 12 September 2021: Two works from People Like You series of Dialogic Portraits included in Harry Pye’s R.A. Summer Show, The Front Room, Ramsgate, UK. Images: (top) People Like You: Ayaan Bulale, 2019, watercolour on paper, 76 x 56.4 cm; (bottom) People Like You: Jason Evans, 2020, watercolour on paper, 76 x 56.4 cm. Photos: Ollie Harrop.   - [Residency at Ikon Gallery's Migrant Festival](https://felicityallen.co.uk/residency-at-ikon-gallery-migrant-festival/): 19 – 22 August 2021: Residency as part of the third annual Migrant Festival at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, with an in-conversation and online screening of Figure to Ground: a site losing its system on Saturday 21 August. More Image: Felicity Allen, Figure to Ground: a site losing its system (still), 2021, film   - [Interview for Woman Up! podcast series by Desperate Artwives](https://felicityallen.co.uk/interview-for-woman-up-podcast/): 27 July 2021: Just launched: Susan Merrick interviews me for the Desperate Artwives podcast series, Woman Up! Listen Image: Felicity Allen, Living with the Death of my Mother, 1982, oil on canvas   - [Exhibition: A Very Special Place: Ikon in the 1990s, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham](https://felicityallen.co.uk/a-very-special-place-at-ikon/): 18 June – 30 August 2021: Baby II included in group exhibition, A Very Special Place: Ikon in the 1990s, Ikon Gallery Birmingham, UK More Photo: Ikon Gallery   - [LK, LS, LY, MY, Y, Rose B Dicks, Margaret Laing Allen in Monika Oechsler with Sharon Kivland (eds.), Salon for a Speculative Future, 2020, Ma Bibliothèque](https://felicityallen.co.uk/lk-ls-ly-my-y-rose-b-dicks-margaret-laing-allen/): LK, LS, LY, MY, Y, Rose B Dicks, Margaret Laing Allen in Monika Oechsler with Sharon Kivland (eds.), Salon for a Speculative Future, 2020, Ma Bibliothèque, London - [Erasure, Transformation and the Politics of Pedagogy: a feminist artistic/curatorial practice, article in Maria Buszek & Hilary Robinson (eds), 2019, A Companion to Feminist Art, Wiley Blackwell](https://felicityallen.co.uk/erasure-transformation-and-the-politics-of-pedagogy-a-feminist-artistic-curatorial-practice-article-in-maria-buszek-hilary-robinson-eds-2019-a-companion-to-feminist-art-wiley-blackwell/) - [19 July 2019 Refugee Tales: walking the borders](https://felicityallen.co.uk/19-july-2019-refugee-tales-walking-the-borders/): I don’t remember facts easily these days. But, from the five-day 110km walk I did last week with Refugee Tales http://refugeetales.org/ , I’ve clocked one or two slotted in between steps taken, hours unslept, ramblings – conversational, over hill, over dale – stories and dancing. It was the evening of Day 4 the US-based British poet Lytton Smith, introducing ‘The Pruner’s Tale’, informed us that, in 2004, a law had been passed in the States, post-9/11, enabling police within 100 miles of the border to stop anyone or anyone’s car and search it without needing a reason. Equally, within that 100… - [Reading from The Disoeuvre: an Argument in 4 Voices (WASL Table); 6:27 (Ma Bibliothèque Press, 2019)](https://felicityallen.co.uk/reading-from-the-disoeuvre-an-argument-in-4-voices-wasl-table-627-ma-bibliotheque-press-2019/): 4 May, 7.00 pm, reading from The Disoeuvre with Althea Greenan, at Hopscotch bookshop, Berlin with Sharon Kivland and others published by Ma Bibliothèque - [Russian Encounters: books by Felicity Allen & John Peter Askew | Reading from Psycho-Neurological Poem in 3 Parts & A Clean Heart and a Cheerful Spirit (Litmus Publishing, 2019)](https://felicityallen.co.uk/russian-encounters-books-by-felicity-allen-john-peter-askew-reading-from-psycho-neurological-poem-in-3-parts-a-clean-heart-and-a-cheerful-spirit-litmus-publishing-2019/): with John Peter Askew, whose publication We is also available, at Chisenhale Open Studios, Sunday 19 May at 4.30 pm. https://chisenhale.co.uk/studios/open-weekend-book-launch/ Photo: John Peter Askew - [The Disoeuvre: the complexity of an oeuvre for the marginalised artist, 2019, PARSE peer -reviewed journal, Valand Academy of Art](https://felicityallen.co.uk/the-disoeuvre-the-complexity-of-an-oeuvre-for-the-marginalised-artist-2019-parse-peer-reviewed-journal-valand-academy-of-art/) - [Reading from Psycho-Neurological Poem in 3 Parts (Litmus Press, 2019) at Kent University Reading series](https://felicityallen.co.uk/reading-from-psycho-neurological-poem-in-3-parts-litmus-press-2019-at-kent-university-reading-series/): 2 April, 6.00 pm, Keynes Senior Common Room with Andrew Spragg. Image: Betsy Porritt, Kat Peddie, Felicity Allen, Dorothy Lehane, courtesy of Patricia Debney - [Performing 'The Disoeuvre, a speech' with Althea Greenan at the launch of Dark Energy: Feminist Organising, Working Collectively](https://felicityallen.co.uk/dark-energy-feminist-organising/): 28 March, 7.00 pm xE – at the Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Eschenbachgasse 11, Ecke Getreidemarkt, 1010 Vienna - [Smadar Dreyfus: School, 2013, review in Art in the Public Sphere 1: 2](https://felicityallen.co.uk/smadar-dreyfus-school-2013-review-in-art-in-the-public-sphere-1-2/) - [Psycho-Neurological Poem in 3 Parts & A Clean Heart and a Cheerful Spirit, 2019, Litmus Publishing](https://felicityallen.co.uk/psycho-neurological-poem-in-3-parts-a-clean-heart-and-a-cheerful-spirit-2019-litmus-publishing/): Go to: https://www.litmuspublishing.co.uk/Shop   - [The Disoeuvre: an Argument in 4 Voices (WASL Table), variation 6:27, 2019, Ma Bibliothèque](https://felicityallen.co.uk/the-disoeuvre-an-argument-in-4-voices-wasl-table-variation-627-2019-ma-bibliotheque/): Go to: http://lightsculpture.pagesperso-orange.fr/sharon/ma_bibliotheque.html - [‘The Disoeuvre: an Argument in 4 Voices (WASL Table), variation 4:27’, 2018, artist’s project, Visual Resources, Vol 34, Nos 3-4, Sept-Dec, pps 420-435](https://felicityallen.co.uk/the-disoeuvre-an-argument-in-4-voices-wasl-table-variation-427-2018-artists-project-visual-resources-vol-34-nos-3-4-sept-dec-pps-420-435/):             - [‘Colouring In’, The World Speaks Back, an anthology of 94 poets’ poems published as a tribute to Denise Riley, 2018, Boiler House Press, excerpt from Begin Again Chronicles](https://felicityallen.co.uk/colouring-in-the-world-speaks-back-an-anthology-of-94-poets-poems-published-as-a-tribute-to-denise-riley-2018-boiler-house-press-excerpt-from-begin-again-chronicles/) - [Doing Time, article in Journal of the National Academy of Art, Vol. 30, No 5, 2018 and in Front Lines, How Might We Talk about the Future? (Art/Education in the 21 st Century), China Academy of Art (article in Chinese)](https://felicityallen.co.uk/doing-time-article-in-journal-of-the-national-academy-of-art-vol-30-no-5-2018-and-in-front-lines-how-might-we-talk-about-the-future-art-education-in-the-21-st-century-china-academy-of-art-a/) - [Re-visiting, Re-situating Gallery Education: reflections on education as a strategy for expanding the concept of ‘public’ in art museums and galleries, in an era of increasing privatisation, 2018, article in Jenna Ashton (ed.), Feminism and Museums: Intervention, Disruption and Change, MuseumsEtc](https://felicityallen.co.uk/re-visiting-re-situating-gallery-education-reflections-on-education-as-a-strategy-for-expanding-the-concept-of-public-in-art-museums-and-galleries-in-an-era-of-increasing-privatis/) - [(in)formalisation, an interview with Felicity Allen, by Jernej Čuček Gerbec, Gabriela Gazova, Anna Korotkova and Marharyta Liavonenka, 2017, CuMMA Papers](https://felicityallen.co.uk/informalisation-an-interview-with-felicity-allen-by-jernej-cucek-gerbec-gabriela-gazova-anna-korotkova-and-marharyta-liavonenka-2017-cumma-papers/): https://cummastudies.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/cumma-papers_24_corr.pdf   - [Creating the Disoeuvre: interpreting feminist interventions as an expanded artistic practice in relation to art’s institutions, 2016, context statement for PhD by Public Works, Middlesex University](https://felicityallen.co.uk/creating-the-disoeuvre-interpreting-feminist-interventions-as-an-expanded-artistic-practice-in-relation-to-arts-institutions-2016-context-statement-for-phd-by-public-works-middlesex-unive/): http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/21558/1/FAllen%20Context%20Statement.pdf - [Begin Again, 2016, published as a limited edition of 21 artists books in two volumes](https://felicityallen.co.uk/begin-again-nos-1-21-2016-vol-2-12-21-published-as-a-limited-edition-of-21-artists-books-two-volumes/): Begin Again Vol. 1: Books 1–11 Vol. 2: Books 12–21 2016 Held in artists books collections by: Tate Library and Archive, London; Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles; Goldsmiths UoL Library, Special Collections (Women’s Art Library). Available to buy online soon. - [Begin Again Chronicles, 2014, Verisimilitude, image/text chapbook.](https://felicityallen.co.uk/begin-again-chronicles-2014-verisimilitude-image-text-chapbook/): Available to buy online soon. - [What does globalisation mean for education in the art museum?, 2013, article in It’s all Mediating. Outlining and Incorporating the Roles of Curating and Education in the Exhibition Context, Cambridge Scholars Press](https://felicityallen.co.uk/what-does-globalisation-mean-for-education-in-the-art-museum-2013-article-in-its-all-mediating-outlining-and-incorporating-the-roles-of-curating-and-education-in-the-exhibition-context-c/): ed. Kaija Katiavuori, Laura Kokkonen, Nora Sternfeld - [Reassembling the Barricades: further thoughts on What does globalisation mean for education in the art museum?, 2013, article in Engage 32, May](https://felicityallen.co.uk/reassembling-the-barricades-further-thoughts-on-what-does-globalisation-mean-for-education-in-the-art-museum-2013-article-in-engage-32-may/) - [Creativity vs Education: Invasive Assessment and the Sketchbook, 2013, article in Art Monthly 366, May (not my title)](https://felicityallen.co.uk/creativity-vs-education-invasive-assessment-and-the-sketchbook-2013-article-in-art-monthly-366-may-not-my-title/) - [The Installation, 2013, Intercapillary Space: an unrolling poetry magazine based in the UK, April 2013](https://felicityallen.co.uk/the-installation-2013-intercapillary-space-an-unrolling-poetry-magazine-based-in-the-uk-april-2013/): http://intercapillaryspace.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-installation.html - [Textual Intimacies: Letters, Journals, Poetry - Ghost Writing Telegraph Cottage, 2013, with Simon Smith, in Nothing Normal: Essays on Literary Intimacies, Bloomsbury Academic](https://felicityallen.co.uk/textual-intimacies-letters-journals-poetry-ghost-writing-telegraph-cottage-2013/): ‘Textual Intimacies: Letters, Journals, Poetry – Ghost Writing Telegraph Cottage’, 2013, with Simon Smith, article in Nothing Normal: Essays On Literary Intimacies, ed. Jennifer Cooke, Bloomsbury Academic. - [Invasive Assessments, Surprise and Performing the Self in the Sketchbook, Nov-Dec 2012, De Witte Raaf 120](https://felicityallen.co.uk/invasive-assessments-surprise-and-performing-the-self-in-the-sketchbook-nov-dec-2012-de-witte-raaf-120/) - [Education: Documents of Contemporary Art, 2011, Whitechapel / MIT](https://felicityallen.co.uk/education-documents-of-contemporary-art-2011-whitechapel-mit/):   - [Your Sketchbook Your Self, 2011, Tate Publishing](https://felicityallen.co.uk/your-sketchbook-your-self-2011-tate-publishing/) - [Border Crossing, 2009, Tate Papers 11, April 09 (co-edited this edition with Jennifer Mundy); revised for I-JADE, International Journal of Art and Design Education 28.3, 2009](https://felicityallen.co.uk/border-crossing-2009-tate-papers-11-april-09-co-edited-this-edition-with-jennifer-mundy-revised-for-i-jade-international-journal-of-art-and-design-education-28-3-2009/) - [Situating Gallery Education, 2008, Tate Encounters Issue 2](https://felicityallen.co.uk/situating-gallery-education-2008-tate-encounters-issue-2/) - [Telegraph Cottage, 2007, with Simon Smith, Mindmade Press (Los Angeles)](https://felicityallen.co.uk/telegraph-cottage-2007-with-simon-smith-mindmade-press-los-angeles/): http://mindmadebooks.com/catalog.html - [Democracy, Freedom, Expression: Practising Ideas of Liberty and Representation in Gallery Education, 2007, in Rodrigo, J (ed), Dialogical Practices, publ. Es Baluard, Palma](https://felicityallen.co.uk/democracy-freedom-expression-practising-ideas-of-liberty-and-representation-in-gallery-education-2007-in-rodrigo-j-ed-dialogical-practices-publ-es-baluard-palma/) - [Perspectives across Cultures with Rebecca Heald, 2007, Engage 20](https://felicityallen.co.uk/perspectives-across-cultures-with-rebecca-heald-2007-engage-20/) - ['The Hayward Gallery working with the Department of Health', 2002, Engage 11](https://felicityallen.co.uk/the-hayward-gallery-workin-with-the-department-of-health-2002-engage-11/) - [Interview with Peter Jenkinson at the New Art Gallery, Walsall, 2000, The Art Book (AAH)](https://felicityallen.co.uk/interview-with-peter-jenkinson-at-the-new-art-gallery-walsall-2000-the-art-book-aah/) - [It’s Groovy to be Global, 1999, Art Monthly (3.99)](https://felicityallen.co.uk/its-groovy-to-be-global-1999-art-monthly-3-99/) - [Make: the magazine of women’s art Guest editor, 1998, 20 year review](https://felicityallen.co.uk/make-the-magazine-of-womens-art-guest-editor-1998-20-year-review/) - [Engage, 1995-1999, Founding editor, bi-annual journal of the National Association for Gallery Education](https://felicityallen.co.uk/engage-1995-1999-founding-editor-bi-annual-journal-of-the-national-association-for-gallery-education/) - [From Community Arts to Gallery Education, 1995, (with Sue Clive) in Art with People, ed. Malcolm Dickson, AN Publications, Newcastle](https://felicityallen.co.uk/from-community-arts-to-gallery-education-1995-with-sue-clive-in-art-with-people-ed-malcolm-dickson-an-publications-newcastle/) ## Pages - [Dressing Up to Be an Artist](https://felicityallen.co.uk/making/she-remembers/): [vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_column_text]Hitching [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_column_text]Typing [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_column_text]Chopping Wood [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_column_text]Motorbiking [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_column_text]Texting [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_column_text]Painting  [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_column_text]Undocumented  [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_media_grid grid_id=”vc_gid:1750872180297-892531ae1cde0733332805c5b5300422-8″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][/vc_column][/vc_row] - [Films](https://felicityallen.co.uk/making/films/): [vc_row column_spacing=”50″ css=”.vc_custom_1627335173714{margin-top: 50px !important;}”][vc_column width=”5/6″][vc_video link=”https://vimeo.com/143528816/b611530d23″ css=”.vc_custom_1677856411448{margin-top: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column_text color=”#222222″ font_size=”16px”]As If They Existed, 2015, 34”32’ Commissioned as part of a residency at Turner Contemporary, Margate, the film shows Felicity Allen making a series of Dialogic Portraits to consider age and recognition with older women who have in various ways contributed to possibilities for women artists. Sitters are: poet & philosopher Denise Riley; artist, Rose Wylie; curators Sandra Drew, Jenni Lomax, Lynda Morris; art historians Gill Perry, Griselda Pollock and Anne Wagner. Situated mostly in a studio with breathtaking views of the sea looking towards France and Belgium,… - [Archive](https://felicityallen.co.uk/making/archive-new/): [vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]This Archive is not definitive and continues to be a work in progress. Some analogue slides have degenerated and have not been corrected with digitisation. Throughout this period I have written an intermittent journal as well as articles, reviews, etc.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_tta_tour active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section title=”1980–1982″ tab_id=”1651739590239-a31508ee-913e”][vc_column_text]1980–1982[/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Series of works mostly on woven or constructed paper grounds. Beginning of a long series working from public statues.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”1982–1984″ tab_id=”1655816265934-53be9d1f-9c19″][vc_column_text]1982–1984[/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Developing work from public statues, a series of ’Sir Thomas Brock at Home’ based on images drawn from the Victoria Memorial (whose sculptor was Sir Thomas Brock), exploring its representations of empire and… - [The Disoeuvre](https://felicityallen.co.uk/the-disoeuvre/): [vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text]The Disoeuvre is a durational project realised through multiple voices and media, made as a series of up to 27 variations, and in different collaborations. Variations respond to contingency, in tune with the concept of the Disoeuvre.  Felicity Allen’s neologism was first published in 2016.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”1126″ onclick=”link_image”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_tta_tabs title_tag=”h3″ spacing=”4″ active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section title=”Introduction” tab_id=”1651843939085-06e4f517-4e1c”][vc_empty_space height=”50px”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]The Disoeuvre, a speech a neologism meaning an oeuvre not easily recognised as one She says, OK oeuvre, a rethink’s overdue this Disoeuvre, unpicking analytical and anarchic teenage perhaps old age: do I Disoeuvre recognition? She’s wresting the French word oeuvre into the English-dominant present… - [WASL Table: Variation 4](https://felicityallen.co.uk/the-disoeuvre-2/the-disoeuvre-an-argument-in-4-voices/wasl-table-variation-4/): [vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”69″ onclick=”img_link_large”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row content_placement=”middle” column_spacing=”50″ equal_height=”yes”][vc_column offset=”vc_col-md-8″][vc_column_text]The Disoeuvre: an Argument in 4 Voices (WASL Table); 4:27. 2018. Pages 420 & 421 from the variation published as ‘Artist’s Project’ in Visual Resources Vol 34 nos 3–4 Sept–Dec 2018, pps 420–435.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row] - [WASL Table: Variation 6](https://felicityallen.co.uk/the-disoeuvre-2/the-disoeuvre-an-argument-in-4-voices/wasl-table-variation-6/): [vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”70″ onclick=”img_link_large”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row content_placement=”middle” column_spacing=”50″ equal_height=”yes”][vc_column offset=”vc_col-md-8″][vc_column_text]The Disoeuvre: an Argument in 4 Voices (WASL Table); 6:27. 2019. This variation published as a book by Ma Bibliothèque.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row] - [WASL Table: Variation 2](https://felicityallen.co.uk/the-disoeuvre-2/the-disoeuvre-an-argument-in-4-voices/wasl-table-variation-2/): [vc_row full_width=”stretch_row_content_no_spaces”][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”384″ onclick=”img_link_large”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row content_placement=”middle” column_spacing=”50″ equal_height=”yes”][vc_column offset=”vc_col-md-8″][vc_column_text]The Disoeuvre: an Argument in 4 Voices (WASL Table); 3:27. 2018. Print no 3 / 12 / 14. This variation exhibited at Ex Libris Gallery, Newcastle University, April-May 2018.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row] - [WASL Table: Variation 3](https://felicityallen.co.uk/the-disoeuvre-2/the-disoeuvre-an-argument-in-4-voices/wasl-table-variation-3/): [vc_row full_width=”stretch_row_content_no_spaces”][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row content_placement=”middle” column_spacing=”50″ equal_height=”yes”][vc_column offset=”vc_col-md-8″][vc_column_text]The Disoeuvre: an Argument in 4 Voices (WASL Table); 3:27. 2018. This variation exhibited at Ex Libris Gallery, Newcastle University, April-May 2018.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row] - [SHOP](https://felicityallen.co.uk/shop/): [vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row] - [Archive old](https://felicityallen.co.uk/archive/): [vc_row full_width=”stretch_row_content_no_spaces”][vc_column offset=”vc_col-md-offset-1 vc_col-md-10″ css=”.vc_custom_1553182676061{padding-right: 22px !important;padding-left: 22px !important;}”][/vc_column][/vc_row] - [The Disoeuvre: Films](https://felicityallen.co.uk/the-disoeuvre-2/the-disoeuvre-films/): [vc_row column_spacing=”40″ gap=”35″][vc_column offset=”vc_col-md-offset-0 vc_col-md-10″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text]An intermittent, durational project, a series of films are in production in collaboration with other artists, identifying eccentric possible histories.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1555594098813{margin-top: 22px !important;}”]The Disoeuvre no 1 (Slidewalking with Althea Greenan), 2019. Exhibited in Dark Energy at x E Ausstellungsraum der Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna, 2019.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row] - [Dialogic Portraits](https://felicityallen.co.uk/making/dialogic-portraits/): [vc_row][vc_column width=”2/6″][vc_column_text font_size=”” line_height=”” letter_spacing=”” responsive_text_min_max=””]Dialogic Portraits is a form that evolves in series. It generates a portraiture which recognises the labour and experience of the sitter as well as that of the artist, thinking together in the context of the painting that emerges from the sitting. Watercolour portraits undermine romantic conventions of unique (and gendered) artistic authority. If a ‘real’ artist is identified through mastery, the medium of watercolour makes such mastery uncertain, reinforced by its associations with amateurism. Each portrait is a document of time spent together and each sitting involves talking and silences. Audio, written and video… - [The Disoeuvre: an Argument in 4 Voices](https://felicityallen.co.uk/the-disoeuvre-2/the-disoeuvre-an-argument-in-4-voices/): [vc_row full_width=”stretch_row_content_no_spaces”][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row content_placement=”middle” column_spacing=”50″ equal_height=”yes”][vc_column offset=”vc_col-md-8″][vc_column_text]Four voices (material, personal, rational, and cultural) converge to produce an image/text series identifying the Disoeuvre. The possible 27 variations respond to contingency, in tune with the concept of the Disoeuvre. The number 27 is both arbitrary and sentimental. Variations include a set of 15 prints, a series of pages in an academic journal, a small press book.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row] - [About](https://felicityallen.co.uk/about-2/) - [Events](https://felicityallen.co.uk/blog/): [vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1652791070051{margin-bottom: 12px !important;}”][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row] - [Making](https://felicityallen.co.uk/making/): [vc_row full_width=”stretch_row_content” content_placement=”middle” column_spacing=”20″ gap=”35″ equal_height=”yes” min_height=”300px” css=”.vc_custom_1552236755940{margin-right: 30px !important;margin-left: 30px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/3″ css=”.vc_custom_1551291572130{background-image: url(http://felicityallen.co.uk.gridhosted.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Felicity-Allen-Newcastle-Uni-4.jpg?id=68) !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}” min_height=”300px”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1555594844386{padding-bottom: 30px !important;}”] The Disoeuvre [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″ css=”.vc_custom_1551291593258{background-image: url(http://felicityallen.co.uk.gridhosted.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/11-Begin-Again-exhibition-detail-2015.jpg?id=10) !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}” min_height=”300px”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1555594763949{padding-bottom: 30px !important;}”] Dialogic Portraits [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″ css=”.vc_custom_1551291667666{background-image: url(http://felicityallen.co.uk.gridhosted.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/3.i-Visual-Resources-inside-copy.jpg?id=69) !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}” min_height=”300px”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1557933156901{padding-bottom: 30px !important;}”] Archive [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row] - [Home](https://felicityallen.co.uk/): [vc_row full_width=”stretch_row_content_no_spaces” full_height=”yes” remove_bottom_col_margin=”true” min_height=”600px” css=”.vc_custom_1718967979294{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}” wpex_bg_position=”left”][vc_column width=”1/2″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row] - [About](https://felicityallen.co.uk/about/): [vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1750082308994{margin-right: 30px !important;}”] Often collaboratively and over time, Felicity Allen produces work in various forms, from painting, writing, print, film and pedagogy as media. She works in the studio, in the social and the institutional. Her career is a manifestation of The Disoeuvre. Please get in touch by email at flick@felicityallen.co.uk CV[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_single_image image=”1101″][/vc_column][/vc_row] - [Writing](https://felicityallen.co.uk/writing/): [vc_row full_width=”stretch_row_content_no_spaces”][vc_column offset=”vc_col-md-offset-1 vc_col-md-10″ css=”.vc_custom_1651233931300{padding-right: 32px !important;padding-left: 32px !important;}”][/vc_column][/vc_row] [comment]: # (Generated by Hostinger Tools Plugin)