Katie Shannon, Dr Lina Džuverović and Dr Jill Westwood

Join us for a discussion with Katie Shannon, Dr Lina Džuverović and Dr Jill Westwood. The panel members will introduce various collaborative projects in which they have respectively been involved, focussing on women’s contribution to industrial and noise scenes, from the 1980s onwards.

The event takes place as part of Katie Shannon's exhibition BACK/PRUNE/VIRGIN/RUIN at Goldsmiths CCA, which comprises print, steel sculpture, video and sound recordings. Drawing on sustained engagement with peripheral musical histories and voices, feminist readings of time and space, and fascinations with municipal and public forms, her work traces the temporal, socioeconomic, psychogeographical and material conditions that structure shared experience.

BIOGRAPHIES

Dr Jill Westwood (b.1960) is an artist, art psychotherapist and former course convenor of the celebrated MA Art Psychotherapy at Goldsmiths, University of London. Westwood’s “life as art” work in the 1980s re-engineered and transformed ideas around anti-censorship imagery exploring aspects of sexuality. Her work challenged codes of male domination, by reconsidering power relations and reclaiming her own body and sexuality. Embedded within artistic and musical subcultures, Westwood was part of the industrial noise-performance phenomenon Fistfuck (1981-4) — one of very few women-led groups in this scene. Exploring taboos, Westwood confronted personal notions of power and aggression fostering transformative processes towards deepening understanding of human struggles. Westwood continues to collaborate across a range of art practices spanning film, performance, writing, and research. Her artwork is featured in Women in Revolt! Art and Activism in the UK 1970–1990, Tate Britain, London; National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh; and The Whitworth, Manchester (2023-2025). Her publications include book chapters, articles and co-editorship of Art Therapy in Australia: Taking a Postcolonial, Aesthetic Turn, Brill Sense (2019).

Dr Lina Džuverović is a curator, Reader in Contemporary Curating and Course Leader of the MA Curating and Collections course at Chelsea College of Art, University of the Arts, London, which she joined in September 2023. Most recently she was lead curator of the Hope is a Discipline across five venues in Belgrade, as part of the 60th edition of the October Salon (2024), a biennial exhibition which is the largest contemporary art manifestation in Serbia. Lina was the initiator and one of the two curators of Her Noise, South London Gallery (2005), an exhibition that led to the creation of the Her Noise Archive, one of UAL Archive and Special Collections Centre's most frequently searched and activated archives. Lina's research focuses on feminist art histories and contemporary art as a site of solidarity and community-building, founding the Decolonial Feminist Forum at Birkbeck in 2019. Since 2019, her research has centered on explorations of gendered divisions of labour within art collectives under the umbrella project And Others: The Gendered Politics and Practices of Art Collectives, which has been supported by Birkbeck School of Arts strategic research funds and a Faculty Grant by the Center for Human Rights & the Arts at Bard College.

Katie Shannon is Scottish artist based in London whose work moves across visual art, performance, writing, and event-making. Often collaborative and situational, projects unfold through relationships contextually arriving through the conjunctions which they explore. Her ongoing research interests interrogate feminist readings of time and space, outsider musical histories, municipal artforms, and subjective perceptions of the End. Recent solo and collaborative outputs including exhibitions The Basement, Bedding, TINA, London (2026); Precarious Egg spilling it’s rotten albumen in Time, Bolding, London 2026, DEVECORPOSTO, Neven Gallery, London (2025), TLC23 FETMIASMAMIS, Le Bourgeois, London (2023) and TLC23 The Amber Pressat ASP fair (2024) and Dortmunder Kunstverein (2024). Former record labels and events include series Domestic Exile with Conal Blake and Alicia Matthews, and So Low with Ribeka and JD Twitch.