Bethan Hemus

Email sent to Fox Yard Gallery, 15.02.2026 Hello,  I hope this finds you well and thank you for the opportunity to be included in this exhibition.  As a multidisciplinary early career artist whose work has a strong feminist narrative, I am excited about the prospect of being included in such an event. I have decided to submit just one piece to you at this time. This is because I believe in the ability of this work to act as a potent mirror for key aspects of what is currently coming up in zeitgeist. Titled The Devil's Doorbell , it is a photograph of my hair combined with a poultry wishbone; an assemblage that was lit directionally to suggest labia minora. It is mounted on a Perspex plaque, simultaneously reminiscent of both hunting trophy display and shield. The trophy semiotic invokes the objectification, critique and violence endured by the female body. The shield explores how certain political agendas assert a "protecting women" narrative to disguise and j...