Milou Stella’s multifaceted artistic practice explores the tension between the personal and the political, and the individual and the collective, with a specific interest towards deconstructing and re-inventing visual poetics rooted in folklore and storytelling. Stella’s hybrid artworks destabilise simplistic binaries and act as creative resistance towards normative ideas of identity and gender. Her work was recently exhibited at Traces: Stories of Migrations (2021, Poplar) with London College of Fashion and Making For Change; and in Utopia: Eco-Feminisms, Art from Heart (2021, Mile End). She was the main visual artist of The Molly’s Masquerade (2020-21) in partnership with St Margaret’s House and Heads Bodies Legs Theatre (Arts Council England, Heritage Fund UK). This was a year long queer community and participatory project where Stella contributed a textile installation exploring the intersectionality of the lives of 18th century London queer pioneers. She also co-led the R&D Imagi-Nation.png exploring the radical meaning of ‘care’ with performer Kazuko Hohki and participants from the Carers Centre of Tower Hamlets, using digital technology, online events and improv music techniques to devise the future of the project. The Elusive Good Egg follows from an earlier exhibition of the works Epic Egg and Mythological Nesting Woman at St Margaret’s House.
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