Exhibition Preview: Stand Strong, Be Yourself

Stand Strong, Be Yourself presents artworks and an animation co-created with participants at Getaway Girls during the Online Objectification project. In collaboration with spoken word and visual artists workshops were ran with two groups of girls at Getaway Girls. During the workshops the participants devised poems and visual artworks that explore the types of negative content they experience online and the things they do to increase their resilience against them.

Please note: Bags may be checked on arrival so allow extra time for security checks. If possible, please leave large bags and rucksacks at home as we do not have the facilities to store these, or any other items of personal property. We reserve the right to not allow any bag, parcel or other item to be brought into the building.

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Image credit: Collage made by girls and young women at Getaway Girls, 2025. With support from Dawn Woolley, Paulette Morris, Denetta D3 Copeland and Marcia Brown (creative workshop leads)