Today we interview Activist-Artist Emma Campbell (she/her) about life growing up in Northern Ireland, the ongoing campaign for pro-choice services and the intersection between photography and performance as a sexy, magical tool for activism.  

 

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Emma Campbell is an activist-artist in the completion stages of her PhD on utilising photography and performance, as a sexy, magical tool for abortion rights along with Alliance for Choice of whom she is a co-convenor. Emma is on the Board of Directors for Outburst Queer Arts, HereNI and The343 Queer Feminist space. Emma has exhibited solo shows in Belfast, Dublin & Berlin and in group shows in London, Liverpool, Donegal, Dublin, Belfast, Stockholm, and Bangkok as well as street art and online. Emma gained her Documentary Photography BA (Hons) at U.W.C.N Newport in 2001, an MFA in Photography at Ulster University in 2012 and worked as a professional photographer and picture editor in London for 10 years for the BBC, The Times London and Network Photographers. As a member of Array, Emma Campbell was 1/11th winner of the 2021 Turner Prize, for ‘The Druiithaib’s Ball’