Felicity Allen

Life as Manifesto: Learning from feminist frictions in the 1970s

Felicity Allen is an artist (painting, writing, film) making solo, collaborative, and sometimes institutional work. Current work includes curating The Disoeuvre: Household exhibition series. Her sixth series of Dialogic Portraits, made as artist in residence with the research project People Like You, is the basis for her 2021 film Figure to Ground – a Site Losing its System. She exhibits and lectures on different continents, and has contributed to international publications. Founding director of Engage, she has lectured in fine art HE, informal education, and gallery education. She edited Education (Documents of Contemporary Art), MIT/Whitechapel, 2011.