UKYA City Takeover

Don't Linger - Installation View: UKYA City Takeover, Surface Gallery, Nottingham, 2019

Don't Linger - Installation View: UKYA City Takeover, Surface Gallery, Nottingham, 2019

Don't Linger - Installation View: UKYA City Takeover, Surface Gallery, Nottingham, 2019

It's always exciting to see members of the public activating Don't Linger and witnessing their reactions to the piece.

UKYA City Takeover Nottingham

Myself with Don't Linger - Installation View: UKYA City Takeover, Surface Gallery, Nottingham, 2019

Don't Linger - Installation View: UKYA City Takeover, Surface Gallery, Nottingham, 2019 

Don't Linger - Installation View: UKYA City Takeover, Surface Gallery, Nottingham, 2019

UKYA City Takeover spanned the city of Nottingham for a week in early February 2019.  The festival united 250 artists from 25 countries, showcasing a huge variety of contemporary work, from visual arts to performance; music; applied arts; literature; digital arts and moving image.

I was very happy to be involved in one of the largest biennials of national and international artists in the world, by exhibiting Don't Linger at Surface Gallery.  I was very pleased at how the public engaged with the work and the conversations it provoked. 

Exhibitions

A selection of images of myself posing with my artworks at various exhibitions from over the past few years.  I believe that consistency is important.

Expectations

Expectations, Chaz Howkins, 2018, human hair on wax strips and pencil on paper

I was commissioned to create a piece of work which related to the theme of hair for an exhibition called Hair Matters.  I decided to focus on pubic hair and the expectations of bodies which are read as female.  The wax strips which surround the vulva are covered in real human hair to mimic pubic hair while swapping the expected colours of the vulva and the wax strips.

UKYA City Takeover

Don't Linger (detail), Chaz Howkins, 2018, pencil on paper and ink on toilet seats

Check out my artist's profile for UKYA City Takeover Nottingham for info about the work I'll be exhibiting:

http://www.ukyoungartists.co.uk/ukya-artists-1/chaz-howkins

UKYA City Takeover

Don't Linger, Chaz Howkins, 2018, pencil on paper and ink on toilet seats

Don't Linger will be exhibited at Surface Gallery, Nottingham, from February 7 - 13th as part of UKYA City Takeover Nottingham.

More info:

http://www.ukyoungartists.co.uk/notts19-exhibitions/2018/12/18/surface-gallery

Hair Matters

Hair Matters Exhibition

Hair Matters Exhibition Panel

I was invited to speak on a panel at the closing event of Hair Matters to discuss the exhibition.

Hair Matters

Hair Matters Exhibition

Hair Matters Exhibition 

Myself and my artwork - Expectations at Hair Matters

Hair Matters was an exhibition which spread across 5 venues in Dalston, London.  The exhibition examined the social and cultural symbolism of hair in the 21st century and featured the work of six young, queer artists who explore the personal and political significance of hair and body hair as incredibly charged symbols of identity. The public interventions included photo manipulations, work with textiles, collage material, graphic design, ephemera and audio material.

I was very happy to have been chosen for the exhibition and commissioned to create a new piece for the show.  I decided to make a piece about pubic hair and the expectations of female bodies.