The Project - A Year of Taking Up Space (Without Apologising)

A Year of Taking Up Space (Without Apologising) is a year-long feminist art series exploring identity, femininity, power, and self-trust through monthly limited edition art prints. Each work responds to an emotional state women are often taught to minimise, justify, or suppress.

A Year of Taking Up Space (Without Apologising)

A year-long art project exploring permission — not as something to be earned or granted, but as something internal, embodied, and reclaimed.

Each month presents a single work responding to a state women are often taught to justify, suppress, or perform: permission, desire, voice, visibility, autonomy, joy, rest, boundaries, ambition, anger, self-trust, and legacy.

The project resists the language of slogans, self-help, and empowerment culture. Instead, it offers a quieter, more confrontational approach, asking what happens when permission is no longer requested, but claimed.

This is not work about becoming louder.
It is work about becoming truer.

The series does not reject femininity, nor does it position strength in opposition to softness. Femininity is presented as expressive, intentional, and self-possessed — capable of holding warmth alongside certainty, and gentleness alongside boundaries.

The works follow an intentional emotional arc rather than a linear progression. Beginning with Permission — the internal shift where possibility is acknowledged — the series moves through desire, visibility, rest, confrontation, and ultimately toward self-trust and legacy. Each piece exists independently; together, they form a narrative.

This project does not promise resolution or transformation. Some works are tender; others remain unresolved. That tension is deliberate.

Taking up space is not a performance.
It is a practice.

 

Begins with

 January - Permission